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About the role
As a Software Engineer III (L3) on Data Runtime, you'll design and build the systems that execute every query at Mixpanel. You'll contribute to the technical design for complex distributed-systems projects, from prototype to global rollout, on initiatives like elastic query compute, the distributed file cache, columnar storage internals, and compaction.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data infra/backend systems, with a track record of shipping quality work quickly
- A solid foundation in distributed systems or data infrastructure, and the drive to go deep
- Experience owning a project or significant component end to end: driving the design, building it, shipping it, and running it in production
- Strong technical communication, especially in writing, e.g., design docs, code review, async discussion across a distributed team
- Sound judgment in technical tradeoffs, informed by real lessons from operating systems in production
More about this role
Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. 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. Learn more at mixpanel.com .
Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more.
Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight. Engineers here own problems end to end. You can move across the stack to ship impact without being blocked by silos or heavy process. Product innovation...
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