Software Engineer, DevInfra
About the Role
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.
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 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 (Mixpanel queries typically scan more than 1 quadrillion events over the span of a month).
- Administer our Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine environment, including Terraform, cost management, networking, and security best practices.
- Set standards for Kubernetes deployment, observability, and developer experience, facilitating upgrades and adoption of new GKE features.
- Own observability pipelines, managing over 30 million Prometheus metrics time series and ingesting over 4 billion distributed tracing spans per month using OpenTelemetry.
- Maintain GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines and a GitHub-native delivery process that empowers teams to self-serve their needs while ensuring safety and reliability.
- Maintain the devbox system that provisions cloud development environments for individual developers.
- Procure best-in-breed SaaS tooling for the rest of engineering (GitHub, Honeycomb, Chronosphere, Sentry, etc.).
- Run the new engineer onboarding process.
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.
Skills
Bonus Points:
- 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.
Pay
The total target cash compensation (TTCC) range for this position is $157,500 - $213,000 USD. This range includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break