Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Summary

Join Mixpanel's DevInfra team as a highly experienced engineer to build and maintain the software development lifecycle. Partner with various engineering teams to optimize for speed, safety, and reliability, supporting systems ingesting over 1 trillion events monthly. Manage Kubernetes at scale, oversee cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform preferred), and own observability pipelines. Maintain CI/CD pipelines, devbox systems, and procure SaaS tooling. Lead by example, mentor engineers, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment. This role requires extensive coding experience, expertise in a major programming language, and proficiency with observability solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of coding experience
• Expert in at least one programming language ecosystem
• Production experience managing Kubernetes at scale
• Production experience managing infrastructure in a major cloud provider such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure
• Proficiency with observability solutions like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Distributed Tracing for application monitoring and performance analysis

Responsibilities

• Partner with a wide variety of teams to build out their software development lifecycle to be optimized for speed, safety, and reliability
• Support teams writing front-end UI code as well as teams maintaining our highly stateful storage systems deep in our stack
• Support systems that ingest more than 1 trillion user-generated events every month while ensuring end-to-end latencies of under a minute
• Mixpanel queries typically scan more than 1 Quadrillion events over the span of a month
• Mixpanel runs entirely on Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine
• DevInfra is the overall admin for our cloud environment, so we wear many hats
• We are responsible for things like Terraform, cost management, networking, and security best practices
• We are the overall service owner for Kubernetes
• Individual teams are responsible for maintaining and monitoring their own clusters and workloads
• We are responsible for setting standards for deployment, observability, and developer experience
• We facilitate efforts like Kubernetes version upgrades and helping teams adopt new Google Kubernetes Engine features
• Service ownership of our observability pipelines
• We have instrumented over 30 million Prometheus metrics time series and use Open Telemetry to ingest over 4 billion distributed tracing spans per month
• We maintain our GitHub Actions based CI/CD pipelines
• We maintain a robust GitHub-native delivery process that empowers teams to self-serve their needs while ensuring safety and reliability
• We maintain our devbox system that provisions cloud development environments for individual developers
• We procure best-in-breed SaaS tooling for the rest of engineering
• We own our relationship with GitHub, Honeycomb, Chronosphere, Sentry, and more
• We run the new engineer onboarding process
• If you join us, your first meeting will probably be with us!

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferably Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Preferably Google Cloud Platform
• You write excellent docs
• Proficient with GitHub Actions and the GitHub ecosystem
• Experience maintaining Continuous Integration jobs
• Experience building deployment pipelines
• We love GitOps!
• Bazel expertise
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems and knowledgeable about security best practices
• Experience implementing Internal Developer Platforms like Backstage
• Working knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles such as implementing Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• You ❤️ open source

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