Staff Software Engineer, Data Pipelines & APIs

As an engineer at Mixpanel, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining the core systems that power the event analytics platform used by over 9,000 paid customers, including renowned companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara. Mixpanel is committed to providing a comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible to all, enabling organizations to make better decisions based on product, marketing, and revenue metrics. Powered by a custom distributed database, Mixpanel ingests over 1 Trillion user-generated events monthly with end-to-end latencies under a minute. The Distributed Systems engineering teams are responsible for enhancing capabilities and ensuring smooth operation as the platform's traffic continues to grow. As the first engineer in India, your responsibilities will include leading and building the India Software Engineering Team, developing distributed systems capable of handling data at scale, resolving production issues across multiple services, ensuring service reliability and uptime, optimizing service costs, maintaining high engineering standards, and pushing the boundaries of customer data analysis. You will work on projects that require a deep understanding of system interactions and components. Mixpanel's infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration, Golang for service development, and GRPC for internal communication. The team focuses on improving system efficiency, implementing custom solutions like event deduplication, and reducing storage costs through innovative approaches. Ideal candidates will have a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals related to distributed systems and networks, a problem-solving mindset, a bias towards iterative development, and experience in or eagerness to learn about building distributed systems. Mixpanel offers a range of benefits and perks, including comprehensive health care coverage, mental wellness benefits, generous vacation policies, parental leave, volunteer time off, and additional US benefits like 401(K) options and wellness benefits. The company values a culture of bold bets, innovation, collaboration, candor, customer-centricity, and powerful simplicity. Joining Mixpanel means becoming part of a leading analytics company with a strong track record, significant funding from top investors, and a commitment to helping innovative companies leverage data for better decision-making. If you are excited about working on challenging projects in distributed systems engineering, Mixpanel's team could be the perfect fit for you.,