Engineering Manager, Stateful Distributed Systems

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Mixpanel</strong></p> <p>Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at <a href="mixpanel.com">mixpanel.com</a>.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Team</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight. Engineers here own problems end to end. You can move across the stack to ship impact without being blocked by silos or heavy process. Product innovation drives our business, and product engineering teams own that responsibility.</span></p> <div>The Infrastructure group focuses on high-scale customer data, operating as a force multiplier for the broader company as it moves toward an AI-first product. It comprises of four teams, Data Foundation, Query Engine, Data Storage and Data Activation.</div> <ul> <li>Data Foundation governs how data enters and is characterized.</li> <li>Query Engine makes queries fast and accurate.</li> <li>Data Storage handles processing and storage at scale and low cost.</li> <li>Data Activation routes behavioral data to the systems that act on it.</li> </ul> <div>Together, these teams are driving foundational initiatives like elastic query compute, distributed file caching, real-time data streaming, and AI-ready APIs that will underpin the next generation of the product. Collectively, they combine deep expertise in high-scale distributed systems and backend engineering to ensure Mixpanel's infrastructure is reliable, performant, and a core part of the broader data ecosystem ready for the demands of an AI-driven future.</div> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join this organization.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Teams operate as autonomous pods, with engineering, product, and design working side by side on clear strategic goals. Teams have direct access to customer feedback, product usage data