Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance

Full Stack Engineer, Data Governance

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 Role

Data governance is one of the most critical challenges for Mixpanel’s enterprise customers. As organizations scale, the number of users and events within their projects grows exponentially. The high-cardinality nature of these projects demands well-thought-out solutions that ensure data remains clean, consistent, and trustworthy.

As a Full Stack Engineer on the Data Governance team, you will work across the stack to develop high-impact features that shape the future of Mixpanel—all while maintaining extreme customer focus. You will collaborate closely with engineers across the company and partner with design, product, and go-to-market teams to build innovative solutions that transform how customers govern their data. Your contributions will unlock new data governance experiences at Mixpanel, empowering customers to analyze their data with confidence.

Responsibilities

At Mixpanel Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) work closely in pods to define the product and experiences. You'll be collaborating closely with your EPD team to create a vision for delightful and intuitive UX, then work to deliver the most impactful features for our customers. You'll be owning key pieces of the product, maintaining them, and always advocating for improvements to make the user experience even better, adding to our growing shared components library and expanding our design system. You’ll be working on our web app, which is built in Python, running Django, with an open source JavaScript framework running the front end. Everything is run on Google Cloud Platform, using Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration and containerization of our services.

A typical project requires working across our stack, creating endpoints for your feature as well as developing and deploying the UI. Here are some projects we've worked on in the past to give you an idea of what to expect:

• Public Metrics Sharing: Developed a feature enabling customers to share their metrics publicly, addressing a pain point for easy data sharing on social media or with executive leadership. This required careful attention to security to prevent unintentional data leaks while enabling easier collaboration.
• Events (formerly Live View) Rebuild: Rebuilt our Live View from the ground up and rebranded it to Events. The goal was to improve user trust and make debugging data and query results easier. This involved removing limitations, improving key workflows, and tightening the UX. The project also simplified both the back-end and front-end architecture, resulting in a more performant and maintainable product.
• Dashboards UI Revamp: Revamped our dashboards UI to improve the workflow for creating and saving analyses, which also clarified our data model. This involved iterating and polishing based on customer usage patterns to smooth workflows and set the stage for future improvements.
• Query Builder Redesign: Redesigned our query builder to allow users to instantly see the results of their changes on a single screen, balancing competing requirements of visual space for the query builder and the ...

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Company Information

• Company: Mixpanel
• Industry: Analytics Platform
• Customers: Over 9,000 paid customers, including Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara.
• Mission: To provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.
• Technology Stack: Python, Django, open-source JavaScript framework, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker.

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