Principal TLM, Query Infrastructure

Engineering Manager, Query Team

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

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.)

The query team at Mixpanel is responsible for building & maintaining the next generation of Mixpanel’s query infrastructure. This includes:

• Designing & building fundamental query primitives that unlock more nuanced analysis.
• Improving query planning, scheduling & multi-tenant resource allocation.
• Identifying & eliminating horizontal scaling bottlenecks.
• Ensuring we meet performance & uptime SLAs.

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 the query service uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met
• Working with customers to improve their query performance.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Prior experience building, maintaining & scaling reliable, high-volume distributed systems.
• Ability to reason about ambiguous problems from first principles and propose creative solutions.
• Strong CS fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems).
• Contributes to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership, collaboration, and/or enablement.
• 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 high volume, stateful distributed systems in SaaS environments.
• 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.

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• Location Type: #LI-Remote
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