Mixpanel
Senior Engineering Manager, Query Infrastructure
Mixpanel, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Engineering Manager, Query Infrastructure
About Mixpanel Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no 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 9,000 paid customers, including 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 query team at Mixpanel builds and maintains the next generation of Mixpanel’s query infrastructure. This includes designing and building fundamental query primitives, improving query planning, scheduling and multi-tenant resource allocation, identifying and eliminating horizontal scaling bottlenecks, and ensuring we meet performance and uptime SLAs. Mixpanel uses Arb, a in-house database, and the platform runs on Google Cloud Platform. We’re a fairly tenured team (average time at Mixpanel is 4 years). We work in structured 6-8 week sprint cycles with clear goals, complemented by short-term wins, bug bashes, prototyping, and planning exercises. We value simplicity, reduced operational overhead, and reusable primitives. About the Role As an engineering manager, you will help scale the team’s impact with hiring, culture, and focus. You’ll be responsible for streamlining execution and prioritization based on a clear understanding of our technical systems and business goals. Responsibilities Hiring and retaining diverse and talented engineers Mentoring engineers and growing future technical leaders Working cross-functionally to translate business goals into the team’s roadmap Nurturing engineering excellence via culture and process Providing meaningful input to technical designs based on an in-depth understanding of our systems and services Ensuring the query service uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met Collaborating with customers to improve their query performance We\'re Looking For Someone Who Has Prior experience building, maintaining, and scaling reliable, high-volume distributed systems Ability to reason about ambiguous problems from first principles and propose creative solutions Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems) Contributes to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership and collaboration Track record of mentoring and growing engineers; you make those around you more productive Bonus Points For Prior engineering management experience on teams that build and operate high-volume, stateful distributed systems in SaaS Experience with database technologies, including internal design and implementation Experience with multi-tenant systems focusing on reliability, performance, isolation and security Compensation The listed amount is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) including base and variable components. This position is eligible for equity and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance. Salary ranges are benchmarked to market data and may change over time. Individual pay within the range is determined by experience and qualifications. If you have questions about the range, your recruiter can share this information. $236,522 - $320,000 USD Benefits and Perks Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental care Generous vacation policy and company holidays Parental leave Additional US benefits: pre-tax benefits including 401(k), wellness benefit, holiday breaks Note: benefits for contract positions may 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 drive powerful outcomes. One Team:
We collaborate across boundaries to achieve greater impact. Candor with Connection:
We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. Champion the Customer:
We 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? We are a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and anchored by strong backing from top investors. Mixpanel’s event-based data analytics platform helps companies understand user behaviors and track success metrics. Our teams tackle scaling, reliability, design, and service challenges to enable customers to learn from their data and make better decisions. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ individuals 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. We may consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records where allowed by law. Our guiding principles are reflected in our Culture and Values. Apply for this job
To apply, please submit your information and materials as requested by the application form. This posting has been refined to remove non-essential boilerplate while preserving the core role information.
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About Mixpanel Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no 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 9,000 paid customers, including 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 query team at Mixpanel builds and maintains the next generation of Mixpanel’s query infrastructure. This includes designing and building fundamental query primitives, improving query planning, scheduling and multi-tenant resource allocation, identifying and eliminating horizontal scaling bottlenecks, and ensuring we meet performance and uptime SLAs. Mixpanel uses Arb, a in-house database, and the platform runs on Google Cloud Platform. We’re a fairly tenured team (average time at Mixpanel is 4 years). We work in structured 6-8 week sprint cycles with clear goals, complemented by short-term wins, bug bashes, prototyping, and planning exercises. We value simplicity, reduced operational overhead, and reusable primitives. About the Role As an engineering manager, you will help scale the team’s impact with hiring, culture, and focus. You’ll be responsible for streamlining execution and prioritization based on a clear understanding of our technical systems and business goals. Responsibilities Hiring and retaining diverse and talented engineers Mentoring engineers and growing future technical leaders Working cross-functionally to translate business goals into the team’s roadmap Nurturing engineering excellence via culture and process Providing meaningful input to technical designs based on an in-depth understanding of our systems and services Ensuring the query service uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met Collaborating with customers to improve their query performance We\'re Looking For Someone Who Has Prior experience building, maintaining, and scaling reliable, high-volume distributed systems Ability to reason about ambiguous problems from first principles and propose creative solutions Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems) Contributes to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership and collaboration Track record of mentoring and growing engineers; you make those around you more productive Bonus Points For Prior engineering management experience on teams that build and operate high-volume, stateful distributed systems in SaaS Experience with database technologies, including internal design and implementation Experience with multi-tenant systems focusing on reliability, performance, isolation and security Compensation The listed amount is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) including base and variable components. This position is eligible for equity and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance. Salary ranges are benchmarked to market data and may change over time. Individual pay within the range is determined by experience and qualifications. If you have questions about the range, your recruiter can share this information. $236,522 - $320,000 USD Benefits and Perks Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental care Generous vacation policy and company holidays Parental leave Additional US benefits: pre-tax benefits including 401(k), wellness benefit, holiday breaks Note: benefits for contract positions may 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 drive powerful outcomes. One Team:
We collaborate across boundaries to achieve greater impact. Candor with Connection:
We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. Champion the Customer:
We 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? We are a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and anchored by strong backing from top investors. Mixpanel’s event-based data analytics platform helps companies understand user behaviors and track success metrics. Our teams tackle scaling, reliability, design, and service challenges to enable customers to learn from their data and make better decisions. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ individuals 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. We may consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records where allowed by law. Our guiding principles are reflected in our Culture and Values. Apply for this job
To apply, please submit your information and materials as requested by the application form. This posting has been refined to remove non-essential boilerplate while preserving the core role information.
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