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$157,500 – $213,000
Listed on Mixpanel’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Build and maintain the distributed systems that execute Mixpanel's analytics queries at massive scale, working on the data execution layer that handles hundreds of trillions of events. This role suits senior engineers who thrive in high-performance backend infrastructure and want to shape the architecture powering an AI-driven analytics platform.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data infrastructure or backend systems
- Solid foundation in distributed systems or data infrastructure
- End-to-end project ownership: design, build, ship, and operate in production
- Strong technical communication, particularly in writing (design docs, code review)
- Sound judgment on technical tradeoffs informed by production experience
- High ownership and accountability
Nice to have
- Experience with Go, C/C++, Python, or SQL
- Experience with distributed systems concepts like sharding, replication, and distributed scheduling
- Familiarity with columnar formats like Arrow or Parquet
- Experience building or tuning distributed caching systems
- Background in performance engineering and profiling
- Experience with GCP (GCS, GKE, Spanner) or equivalent cloud platforms
- Experience with AI-augmented development tools