Mixpanel
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Francisco, US (Hybrid) · Mid
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$7,631 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers.
- You can move across the stack to ship impact without being blocked by silos or heavy process.
- Our OLAP engine queries over 500 trillion events; a typical blob storage system we interact with processes 300 PiB/month at 1.2 Tbps sustained, and we run many of them across the world.
Responsibilities
- By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what's working, diagnose what's not, and decide what to build next.
- We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
- We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
- We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
- Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- We Value
- Languages: Go, C/C++, Python, and SQL.
- Distributed systems: sharding/partitioning, replication, distributed scheduling, work fanout/merge, consistent hashing.
- Storage & query engines: columnar formats (Arrow/Parquet or in-house equivalents), indexing, and compression.
- Caching: distributed file/block caches, admission and eviction policies, tiered storage.
- Performance engineering: profiling (pprof, perf), concurrency, memory management, benchmarking.
- Cloud & infra: GCP (GCS, GKE, Spanner) or equivalent AWS/Azure, Kubernetes.
- Reliability: observability (metrics, tracing, logging), SLOs, incident management.
- AI-augmented engineering: LLM tooling to accelerate development, triage, and operations.
- How We Work
- Compensation
- The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations.
Compensation
- The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions.
- Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level.
- In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database.
- To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break
- please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*
Company info
- We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight.
- Engineers here own problems end to end.
- Product innovation drives our business, and product engineering teams own that responsibility.
- The Data Runtime team owns the data execution layer that powers every Mixpanel product.
- We ensure that every customer query runs fast, cheap, and reliably, at any scale.
- This is an exciting time to join.
- Mixpanel's agentic and AI-first products are driving rapid growth in query volume, and Data Runtime is making the big bets that power it.
- We're investing in elastic query compute and a distributed file cache that will let us scale query workloads dramatically without scaling cost with them.
- We sit at the center of the data platform, interfacing daily with Query Serving, Streaming, Core Analysis, Data Foundation, Product, and other teams across the company.
- The team combines deep expertise in high-scale distributed systems and backend engineering.
- It's a senior-heavy team, including Staff-level engineers with years of context in the engine internals, which means you'll be surrounded by people you can learn from and grow with.
This listing is sourced directly from Mixpanel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.