Principal TLM, Query Infrastructure

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
Remote
311K-466K Annually
Senior level
Software • Analytics
Turn data into decisions. We're helping the world learn from its data with event analytics everyone can use. Let's build
The Role
As a Principal TLM, you will manage engineering teams, drive technical designs, improve query infrastructure, and ensure uptime and performance standards are met.
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About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.

Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.

About the Team

Mixpanel is a cloud application deployed on Google’s Cloud Platform. It is powered by an in-house database called Arb, which is built for ingesting, storing, and querying trillions of events in real time, at interactive latencies. (Read more about the core primitives of Arb.)

The query team at Mixpanel is responsible for building & maintaining the next generation of Mixpanel’s query infrastructure. This includes designing & building fundamental query primitives that unlock more nuanced analysis; improving query planning, scheduling & multi tenant resource allocation; identifying & eliminating horizontal scaling bottlenecks; & ensuring we meet performance & uptime SLAs.

We’re a fairly tenured team (average time at Mixpanel is 4 years). We work in terms of structured 6-8 week long sprints with clear goals that are interspersed with less structured periods consisting of short-term wins, bug bashes, free form exploration, prototyping, & planning exercises. We encourage and expect all team members to provide input to prioritization in terms of written proposals, which is complemented with centralized prioritization. We value simplicity, reduced operational overhead & re-usable primitives in our solutions. 

About the Role

As an engineering manager, you would help scale the team’s impact with hiring, culture and focus. You’ll be responsible for streamlining execution and prioritization based on a clear understanding of our technical systems and associated business goals.

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. 

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

  • 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.

Bonus Points For

  • 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.

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Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.
Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Mixpanel Compensation Range

$310,500$465,500 USD

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

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

  • Be Open: When knowledge becomes open, we can come together as a team to collaborate around a shared purpose
  • Customer Focus: Our customers’ success is our success
  • Lead Change: Everyone at Mixpanel has the capacity to make an impact on the business
  • Results Oriented: Driving results in a measurable way ensures we stay focused on the highest impact initiatives
  • One Team: We can’t win without each other

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised 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.

Top Skills

Database Technologies
Distributed Systems
Google Cloud Platform
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
350 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform that allows anyone to get answers from their customer and revenue data in seconds. It offers powerful real-time charts and visualizations of how people interact with your digital products and company. With insights into behaviors like conversion and retention, teams can collaborate more effectively and make informed decisions. Regardless of technical expertise, builders can double down on what’s working, cut what isn’t, and spend more time on their best ideas with Mixpanel.

Mixpanel serves over 8,000 customers from different industries around the world, including global leaders like Uber, Yelp, Zalora, BuzzFeed, eToro, and Lemonade. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore.

For more information, visit: http://www.mixpanel.com

Why Work With Us

Being a part of the Mixpanel team means driving innovation in a culture that celebrates creativity and fosters belonging. We believe bringing your full self to work enables your best work. At Mixpanel, we focus on what truly matters—our people, customers, and partners, recognizing these relationships as our most valuable assets.

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