Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform, PLG

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is a leading product analytics software company, currently helping the world answer 81 million product questions every year. Our pioneering event-based tracking solution gives product teams the ability to gain insights into how to best acquire, convert, and retain their users across web and mobile platforms.

Powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use, Mixpanel enables teams to learn from their user data and innovate rapidly in creating winning products. Today, we serve nearly 7,000 paying customers through seven offices globally in our quest to provide the most in-depth product analytics that everyone can use and trust.

About the Team

The team's mission is to build a data platform that can not only power delightful customer experiences across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, and Product but also provide operational visibility into our business.

Data quality is foundational to our mission and we believe it is not something that can be “layered” solely in the platform. So we partner very closely with different functions across the company to make sure their systems are architected with data quality in mind and help automate critical workflows that impact the data quality.

This team presents a unique opportunity as you will not only get to play multiple roles within the team (analytics engineer, data engineer, and systems engineer) but you will also be helping us define and shape a data platform that will be foundational to our business. Additionally a lot of our customers also likely require similar solutions, so you’ll have the opportunity to influence not just Mixpanel but the broader industry as well!

We are a team of engineers with a wide range of experience having worked on almost all layers of Mixpanel’s tech stack, right from our website UX all the way to the internals of our distributed database engine and everything in between. We love applying our engineering skills to solve problems that have a direct business impact ranging from:

• Enabling our marketing team to target our “Ideal customers” through ad campaigns
• Helping our support team improve their response SLAs to customers
• Alerting our sales & success teams to customers who hit product milestones
• Helping our product team build Mixpanel for the Modern Data Stack

We primarily speak SQL & Python, use BigQuery as our data warehouse, and leverage dbt, Fivetran, Census & hightouch for building pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Work with various teams across the company to understand their use cases, identify problems, and design solutions that will empower the teams with high-quality data.
• Build data pipelines that funnel high-quality data into our warehouse
• Work with the data analysis/science teams to understand their analytics requirements and provide them access to clean data sets
• Put in place tooling and frameworks to facilitate data governance, quality, and shared analysis between internal organizations
• Own the data in the warehouse and represent the team with various stakeholders

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• 2+ years of experience in writing performant, iterable, and easy-to-debug SQL
• 1+ years of experience in Python (or any other equivalent scripting language)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical aptitude and the ability to rapidly understand the business context from new data sets
• A strong understanding of data quality testing
• Individuals who are motivated by enabling and helping others within the company to be data-driven

Bonus Points For

• Experience working with Google BigQuery, Redshift, or similar technologies
• Familiarity with cloud-based ETL technologies (i.e Google cloud functions, Fivetran, tray.io, dbt, census)

Compensation

The total target cash compensation (TTCC) for this full-time position would fall within the bands below. This amount 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 below, 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.

Senior Software Engineer, IC4 $211,500 - $258,500
Staff Software Engineer, IC5 $259,200 - $316,800

Leveling is determined by factors such as years of relevant work experience, level of responsibility, and knowledge required to be successful in the role.

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.

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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

• Be Open: When knowledge becomes open, we can come together as a team to collaborate around a shared purpose
• Customer Focus: Our customers’ success is our success
• Lead Change: Everyone at Mixpanel has the capacity to make an impact on the business
• Results Oriented: Driving results in a measurable way ensures we stay focused on the highest impact initiatives
• One Team: We can’t win without each other

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re the leader in product analytics and have raised $277M from prominent investors like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and Bain Capital. Over the years, we’ve seen a spike in our leading indicators—signups and weekly active users—which have directly translated to revenue growth. Recently, we secured a $200M Series C growth investment from Bain Capital to accelerate our product development, expand our reach to customers, and more. Our award-winning teams make our continued growth possible by finding creative solutions to ever-changing challenges with scaling, reliability, design, and service. Today, we’re the only company single-mindedly focused on enabling the world’s most innovative companies to use data to uncover insights about their customers to build better products.

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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