# Software Engineer, Data Runtime

**Company**: Mixpanel
**Location**: San Francisco, US
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Software Engineer III (L3) on Data Runtime at Mixpanel, you'll design and build systems that execute every query at Mixpanel. You will contribute to technical designs for complex distributed-systems projects and work alongside senior engineers.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build systems that execute every query at Mixpanel

- Contribute to technical designs for complex distributed-systems projects, from prototype to global rollout

- Collaborate with peer infrastructure teams and product teams on shared architecture

- Have real influence over the technical direction of the compute layer that Mixpanel's AI-first future runs on

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data infra/backend systems

- Solid foundation in distributed systems or data infrastructure

- Experience owning a project or significant component end to end

- Strong technical communication, especially in writing

- Sound judgment in technical tradeoffs

- High ownership and accountability

## Technical Skills We Value

- Languages: Go, C/C++, Python, SQL

- Distributed systems: sharding/partitioning, replication, distributed scheduling

- Storage & query engines: columnar formats, indexing, compression

- Caching: distributed file/block caches, admission and eviction policies

- Performance engineering: profiling, concurrency, memory management

- Cloud & infra: GCP, Kubernetes

- Reliability: observability, SLOs, incident management

## How We Work

- Autonomous pods with engineering, product, and design working side by side

- Customer problems, first principles, and simple solutions

- Engineering owns execution, quality, and operations

- Written thinking, dashboards, and demos over slide decks

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- data infrastructure
- backend engineering
- Go
- C/C++
- Python
- SQL
- cloud computing
- performance engineering

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