Senior Engineering Manager, Data Pipelines & APIs
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Pipelines & APIs
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$ 279000 - 377000
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About Mixpanel
Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertipsno SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product marketing and company revenue metrics they are poised to make better decisions.
Over 9000 paid customers including companies like Netflix Pinterest Sweetgreen and Samsara use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.
About the Team
The Data Pipeline & API team is responsible for the Data APIs Pipelines and Integrations that power real-time movement of customer data and support trillions of requests each month. These systems are critical to Mixpanels product and business enabling core workflows for external customers. This includes data APIs which are foundational to customer onboarding and must be highly reliable and scalable; data export APIs which help us maintain feature parity and support the needs of scaling customers; and integrations like warehouse connectors and cohort exports which reduce friction drive adoption and expand our partner ecosystem. This role ensures these systems are robust efficient and aligned with a product strategy that emphasizes impact growth and long-term reliability.
Mixpanel is a cloud application deployed on Googles Cloud Platform. It is powered by an in-house database called Arb which is built for ingesting storing and querying trillions of events in real time at interactive latencies. (Read moreabout the core primitives of Arb.)
Were a fairly tenured team (average time at Mixpanel is 4 years). We work in terms of structured 6-8 week long sprints with clear goals that are interspersed with less structured periods consisting of short-term wins bug bashes free form exploration prototyping & planning exercises. We encourage and expect all team members to provide input to prioritization in terms of written proposals which is complemented with centralized prioritization. We value simplicity reduced operational overhead & re-usable primitives in our solutions.
About the Role
As an engineering manager you would help scale the teams impact with hiring culture and focus. Youll be responsible for streamlining execution and prioritization based on a clear understanding of our technical systems and associated business goals.
Responsibilities
- Hiring and retaining diverse and talented engineers
- Mentoring engineers & growing future technical leaders
- Working cross-functionally to translate business goals into the teams roadmap
- Nurturing engineering excellence via culture and process
- Providing meaningful input to technical designs based on an in depth understanding of our systems & services
- Ensuring data api and pipeline uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met
- Working with customers to improve performance.
Were Looking For Someone Who Has
- Has prior experience building maintaining & scaling reliable high-volume distributed systems.
- Can reason about ambiguous problems from first principles and propose creative solutions
- Has strong CS fundamentals (e.g. data structures algorithms and distributed systems)
- Contributes to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership collaboration and/or enablement
- Has a track record of mentoring and growing engineers who work with you. You make engineers around you more productive.
Bonus Points For
- Prior engineering management experience especially on teams that build and operate highly critical services.
- Prior Experience with database technologies including their internal design and implementation.
- Prior Experience with multi-tenant systems with focus on reliability performance isolation and security.
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. You can view our benefits offerings here.
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. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. 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. If you have questions about the specific range your recruiter can share this information.
Mixpanel Compensation Range
$279000 - $377000 USD
Benefits and Perks
- Comprehensive Medical Vision and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K) Wellness Benefit Holiday Break
*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*
Culture Values
- Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
- Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data experience and collective wisdom to drivepowerful outcomes.
- One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
- Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
- Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers needs ensuring their success is our north star.
- Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems making sophisticated things accessible.
Why choose Mixpanel
Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling reliability design and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means youll be helping the worlds most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.
Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel we are focused on things that really matterour people our customers our partnersout of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women people with disabilities veterans underrepresented minorities and LGBTQ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
