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Job Overview

As a Software Engineer III (L3) on Data Runtime, you'll design and build the systems that execute every query at Mixpanel.

Key points

  1. You'll contribute to the technical design for complex distributed-systems projects, from prototype to global rollout, on initiatives like elastic query compute…

  2. You'll work alongside some of the most senior engineers at Mixpanel, partner with peer infrastructure teams (Query Serving, Streaming…

  3. Go, C/C++, Python, and SQL.

  4. Distributed systems: sharding/partitioning, replication, distributed scheduling, work fanout/merge, consistent hashing.

  5. Storage & query engines: columnar formats (Arrow/Parquet or in-house equivalents), indexing, and compression.

  6. Caching: distributed file/block caches, admission and eviction policies, tiered storage.

  7. Performance engineering: profiling (pprof, perf), concurrency, memory management, benchmarking.

  8. GCP (GCS, GKE, Spanner) or equivalent AWS/Azure, Kubernetes.

Skills

PythonSQLAWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesGitLLMs

Experience: Mid-level

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