Software Engineer, DevInfra

Overview

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI‑first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry‑leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit  to learn more.

The Dev Infra team is Mixpanel’s platform engineering team. Our mission is to be a force multiplier for Mixpanel engineering as a whole. We achieve this by partnering with our engineering teams to build a world‑class software development life cycle together.

We are looking for an engineer with a strong track record of solving tooling pain points, automating away toil, and helping teams deliver software faster, more safely, and more reliably. Someone who is energized by supporting their fellow engineers. An engineer who has good taste and leverages AI to great effect without generating slop. Frequent forays into uncharted territory requires our team to be highly adaptable and always ready to learn.

We serve as trailblazers for the rest of Mixpanel engineering.

• Partner with a wide variety of teams to build out their software development lifecycle to be optimized for speed, safety, and reliability. We support teams writing front‑end UI code as well as teams maintaining our highly stateful storage systems deep in our stack.
• Deploy AI tools like Claude Code across the entire engineering team. Build agents into our platform to augment on‑call response and automatically one‑shot bugs that come through a team’s triage queue.
• Support systems that ingest more than 1 trillion user‑generated events every month while balancing low end‑to‑end query latency.
• Administer Mixpanel’s Google Cloud Platform environment, responsible for Terraform, cost management, networking, and security best practices.
• Serve as the overall service owner for Kubernetes. Set standards for deployment, observability, and developer experience, and facilitate efforts like Kubernetes version upgrades and helping teams adopt new GKE features.
• Own observability pipelines, instrumenting over 30 million Prometheus metrics time series and ingesting over 4 billion distributed tracing spans per month.
• Maintain our Git Hub Actions based CI/CD pipelines to empower teams to self‑serve their needs while ensuring safety and reliability.
• Maintain our devbox system that provisions cloud development environments for individual developers.
• Procure best‑in‑breed SaaS tooling for the rest of engineering and own our relationships with Git Hub, Honeycomb, Chronosphere, Sentry, and more.
• Run the new engineer onboarding process and lead the first meeting with new hires.

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Production experience working with Kubernetes.
• Production experience managing infrastructure in a major cloud provider such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure. Preferably Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledgeable about coding agents like Claude Code.

• Experience with observability solutions like Open Telemetry, Prometheus, or Distributed Tracing for application monitoring and performance analysis.
• Experience with service mesh.
• Proficient with Git Hub Actions and the Git Hub ecosystem.
• Experience building deployment pipelines. We love Git Ops!
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems and knowledge of 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).

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…