Senior Engineering Manager, Data Pipelines & APIs

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $279,000 PA - $377,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Mixpanel is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Data Pipelines & APIs. This role is responsible for the Data APIs, Pipelines, and Integrations that manage real-time customer data and support trillions of requests monthly. The manager will focus on hiring, retaining, and mentoring engineers, streamlining execution, and ensuring data API and pipeline uptime and performance. The ideal candidate will have experience building and scaling distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, and a track record of growing engineers. The position is cloud-based on Google Cloud Platform, powered by an in-house database called Arb.
Must have:
  • Experience building, maintaining, and scaling reliable, high-volume distributed systems.
  • Ability to reason about ambiguous problems from first principles.
  • Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems).
  • Contribute to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership.
  • Track record of mentoring and growing engineers.
Good to have:
  • Prior engineering management experience on critical services teams.
  • Experience with database technologies (internal design/implementation).
  • Experience with multi-tenant systems (reliability, performance, isolation, security).
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
  • Mental Wellness Benefit
  • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K)
  • Wellness Benefit
  • Holiday Break

Job Details

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 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 Mixpanel’s 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 Google’s 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 more about the core primitives of Arb.)

We’re 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 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 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 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 & services
  • Ensuring data api and pipeline uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met
  • Working with customers to improve performance.

We're 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

$279,000 - $377,000 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 drive powerful 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?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s 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 you’ll be helping the world’s 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 matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out 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. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

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