Software Engineer, DevInfra

Mixpanel•San Francisco, CA

13h

About The Position

The DevInfra 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.

Requirements

3+ years of industry experience.
Experience with at least one of: Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
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

Nice To Haves

Experience with observability solutions like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Distributed Tracing for application monitoring and performance analysis.
Experience with service mesh.
You write excellent docs.
Proficient with GitHub Actions and the GitHub ecosystem.
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.

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.
Deploy AI tools like Claude Code to our entire engineering team.
Build agents into our platform to do things like 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.
Manage Mixpanel's entirely Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine environment, including Terraform, cost management, networking, and security best practices.
Serve as the overall service owner for Kubernetes, setting standards for deployment, observability, and developer experience, and facilitating efforts like Kubernetes version upgrades and helping teams adopt new Google Kubernetes Engine features.
Own our observability pipelines, including instrumenting Prometheus metrics and using Open Telemetry for distributed tracing.
Maintain GitHub Actions based CI/CD pipelines and a robust GitHub-native delivery process that empowers 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, owning relationships with GitHub, Honeycomb, Chronosphere, Sentry, and more.
Run the new engineer onboarding process.