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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Mixpanel

$191,000 - $233,000
Oct 17, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US • Remote, US
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Mixpanel needs to scale its custom distributed database to handle the increasing volume of user-generated events (currently over 1 Trillion per month) while maintaining low latency and ensuring the smooth operation of underlying systems.

Requirements

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration and containerization of services.
  • Proficiency in Golang for writing services.
  • Experience with GRPC for internal communication.
  • Experience with C and C++ for performance-critical sections.
  • A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals when it comes to dealing with distributed systems and networks.
  • Experience with debugging production issues across multiple services and all levels of our infrastructure stack

Responsibilities

  • Build distributed systems that can handle data at scale.
  • Debug production issues across multiple services and all levels of our infrastructure stack.
  • Ensure reliability and uptime of the services you're responsible for.
  • Monitor service costs and remove inefficiencies.
  • Improve engineering standards and holding a high bar for code quality and simplicity.
  • Work with other engineers to build distributed systems that can handle data at scale
  • Push the boundaries on how our customers analyze their product data

Other

  • We have openings across multiple Distributed Systems teams.
  • A knack for problem-solving and thinking from first principles. You don't shy away from any problem, no matter the scale or impact
  • A bias towards shipping early and iterating. We believe in making small incremental changes to existing systems instead of large multi-quarter undertakings