Mixpanel
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
$158K–$213K
San Francisco, US (Hybrid) +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data infrastructure/backend systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates distributed data-execution systems that make Mixpanel customer queries fast, cost-effective, and reliable at scale.
What you'll do
- Contribute to technical design and deliver distributed-systems projects from prototype through global rollout, including elastic query compute, distributed file cache, columnar storage, and compaction.
- Own projects or significant components end to end, including production operation.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams on shared architecture and the compute layer’s technical direction.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data infrastructure or backend systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Foundation in distributed systems or data infrastructure, and experience delivering a project or significant component through production.
- Strong written technical communication and sound judgment in production-system tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- Experience with the listed technologies and areas, including Go, C/C++, Python, SQL, distributed systems, storage and query engines, caching, performance engineering, cloud infrastructure, and reliability.
- Use of LLM tooling for development, triage, and operations.
Pay
$157,500 — $213,000 USD total target cash compensation (TTCC)
Tools
Go, C/C++, Python, SQL, GCP, GCS, GKE, Kubernetes
AI focus
Builds infrastructure supporting AI-first analytics and AI-powered experiences; AI-augmented engineering with LLM tooling to accelerate development, triage, and operations.
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