Forward Deployed Engineer

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.

**We are open to candidates based in any of our hiring hubs for this position: San Francisco Bay Area CA Greater Los Angeles CA Seattle WA Portland OR Austin TX Chicago IL Denver CO New York City NY Washington DC**

About the Role

This role will be a critical member of the Professional Services team helping our enterprise customers integrate Mixpanel into complex technical architectures. Mixpanel takes a consultative approach to selling - and you will look holistically at customer problems and find optimal ways to help customers make better and more efficient decisions.

You will be the technical expert responsible for ensuring that customer data flows into Mixpanel accurately and efficiently enabling them to unlock the full value of our platform. This role will work closely with customers to understand their data infrastructure design scalable data solutions and provide hands-on technical guidance. Internally you will partner with the Go-to-Market team (Sales Solution Engineering and Customer Success) to support technical implementations and with our Product and Engineering teams to share field insights that will shape our product strategy.

Responsibilities

Your primary objectives will be to act as a trusted advisor to customers and help them achieve their business outcomes while ensuring the success of Mixpanel as measured by your impact to ARR and Services Revenue.

1. Collaborate with customer data teams to understand their data architecture and ensure seamless integration with their existing systems and customer data platforms. Act as the primary technical advisor for customers guiding them through custom integration and implementation requirements.
2. Design build and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines to ingest data from various customer sources into Mixpanel. Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to data ingestion APIs and SDKs.
3. Develop and implement data validation and quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data sent to Mixpanel.
4. Develop tooling methodologies and collateral to sell & deliver consistently across the enterprise book - building repeatable frameworks to be utilized by Customer Success and partners.
5. Create and maintain technical documentation implementation guides and reusable assets for our customers and internal teams.
6. Work closely with the Sales and Customer Success teams to provide technical expertise during the pre-sales and post-sales process as it relates to Professional Services.

Were Looking For Someone Who Has

• 4 years of hands-on experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering Data Engineering or similar role.
• Strong technical expertise in data architecture ETL/ELT development data warehousing (Snowflake BigQuery etc.) relational databases data normalization and cloud architecture (GCP preferred).
• Proven experience with B2B SaaS companies preferably in a customer-facing capacity.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python Java Javascript Bash SQL etc.
• A deep understanding of customer data platforms and their role within a companys data ecosystem.
• Experience working with various APIs and data sources to build complex data integrations.
• A technically curious mindset with a passion for solving new and challenging problems and a desire to help others succeed.
• Preferred: Hands-on experience in the Digital Analytics or Product Analytics space.
• Preferred: Direct experience with Mixpanels platform and APIs.

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.