Principal TLM, Query Infrastructure

Summary

Join Mixpanel's query team as an Engineering Manager and help scale the team's impact through hiring, culture building, and focused execution. You will streamline prioritization, translate business goals into the team's roadmap, and nurture engineering excellence. The role requires experience with high-volume distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, and a proven track record of mentoring engineers. Mixpanel offers a competitive compensation package, including a comprehensive benefits package and a positive work culture. The company values open communication, customer focus, leading change, results orientation, and teamwork. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• 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 the query service uptime and performance SLO/SLAs are met
• Working with customers to improve their query performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior engineering management experience, especially on teams that build and operate high volume, stateful distributed systems in SaaS environments
• 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

Benefits

• 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