Senior Software Engineer, Data Foundation

Mixpanel, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mixpanel, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Foundation team to build high-impact features that keep data clean, consistent, and trustworthy at scale. You will collaborate across Product, Design, GTM, and engineering to deliver data governance capabilities in our analytics platform.

The role emphasizes ownership across the stack, from backend services to frontend features, and requires leading projects end to end with a customer-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• Full-stack experience with ability to own projects end to end.
• Experience leading projects beyond ticket-level work.
• Ability to move across the stack confidently.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing features on our web application (React SPA)
• Collaborate closely with engineers and cross-functional partners across Product, Design, GTM, and beyond
• Take full ownership of projects — from shaping and delivery through iteration

Skills

Full-stack experience

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Tools

Python

Django

Go

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Data Foundation

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com .

About The Role

Data governance is one of the most critical challenges for Mixpanel's enterprise customers, and the AI era turns it into a foundational problem. Analytics and agents are only as trustworthy as the data beneath them. Poor data quality compounds: incorrect analyses spread as it becomes easier for anyone — or any agent — to query data, and the problem multiplies as customers scale into projects with high-cardinality events and fast-growing user bases. A data foundation that stays clean, consistent, and trusted is what sets Mixpanel apart.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Foundation team, you'll work across the stack to build high-impact features with extreme customer focus. You'll partner closely with engineers across the company, and with Design, Product, and GTM, to solve one of the hardest problems in analytics: keeping data clean, consistent, and trustworthy at scale.

• Build customer-facing features on our web application (React SPA)
• Collaborate closely with engineers and cross-functional partners across Product, Design, GTM, and beyond
• Take full ownership of projects — from shaping and delivery through iteration

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Full-stack experience, with deep expertise in at least one of:
  • Web application backends (Python, Django)
  • High-volume APIs
  • Search indexing
• A track record of leading projects end to end, not just executing tickets
• Comfort moving across the stack

Bonus Points For

• Experience with data ingestion (Go)
• A data-driven or metrics-focused approach to decision-making

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Advanced Delete
• Data Volume Monitoring and Anomaly Detection
• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 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

• 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 drivepowerful 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?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

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.