Senior Engineering Manager, Data Pipelines & APIs

Mixpanel, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 279,000 - 377,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading analytics platform provider in San Francisco seeks an Engineering Manager to oversee hiring, mentoring, and system performance. The role requires strong experience in distributed systems, a talent for mentoring engineers, and a commitment to fostering a diverse team. The compensation ranges from $279,000 to $377,000 annually, including equity and benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental care

Generous vacation policy

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience in building, maintaining and scaling distributed systems.
• Ability to reason through ambiguous problems creatively.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Hiring and retaining diverse engineers.
• Mentoring engineers and nurturing future leaders.
• Working cross-functionally to develop the team’s roadmap.
• Ensuring uptime and performance of data APIs and pipelines.

Skills

Building reliable, high-volume distributed systems

Problem-solving from first principles

Strong CS fundamentals

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Overview

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 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 and 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 and services
• Ensuring data API and pipeline uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met
• Working with customers to improve performance

Qualifications

• Has prior experience building, maintaining and scaling reliable, high-volume distributed systems.
• Can reason about ambiguous problems from first principles and propose creative solutions
• Has strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems)
• Contributes to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership, collaboration, and enablement
• Has a track record of mentoring and growing engineers who work with you. You make engineers around you more productive.

Bonus Points

• 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 compensation 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.

Salary range: $279,000 - $377,000 USD

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental care
• Generous vacation policy and additional company holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pre-tax benefits including 401(k), wellness benefit, holiday break

Note: 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?

Mixpanel is a leading analytics platform with thousands of customers and strong backing from notable investors. Our platform helps teams understand user behavior and track metrics to drive informed decisions. Join Mixpanel to help the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data.

Equal Opportunity

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, 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.