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Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems

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Mixpanel

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United States , San Francisco

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IT - Software Development

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279000.00 - 377000.00 USD / Year
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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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Hiring and retaining diverse and talented engineers
  • Mentoring engineers & 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 & services
  • Ensuring data api and pipeline uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met
  • Working with customers to improve performance

Requirements:

  • Prior experience building, maintaining & scaling reliable, high-volume distributed systems
  • Can reason about ambiguous problems from first principles and propose creative solutions
  • Strong CS fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems)
  • Contributes to attracting and retaining engineers through technical leadership, collaboration, and/or enablement
  • Track record of mentoring and growing engineers who work with you

Nice to have:

  • 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
What we offer:
  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
  • Mental Wellness Benefit
  • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K)
  • Wellness Benefit
  • Holiday Break
  • Equity consideration

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 03, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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