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Engineering Manager, Query Service

Lead an engineering team focused on delivering impactful AI-powered product analytics in a fast-moving environment.

Location
San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
Compensation
$279k–$377k/yr
Level
director
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 5 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

Role intensity

20% coding — mostly leadership/strategy

AI in the day-to-day

Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next using AI.

Requirements

Experience
6+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

The Engineering Manager for the Query Service at Mixpanel leads a team focused on enhancing the company's analytics capabilities through the development and maintenance of the Query API and related infrastructure. This role requires a strong background in building customer-facing web applications and experience with AI-powered products, alongside proven leadership skills to foster team growth and collaboration. Ideal candidates will have a mix of technical expertise and the ability to navigate complex organizational structures, making this position suitable for those with significant engineering and management experience.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Engineering Manager, Query Service role remote?
It's hybrid — Mixpanel expects some on-site time in San Francisco, US (Hybrid).
What's the salary range?
Mixpanel lists $279,000–$377,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Query Service role.
Where is the role based?
Mixpanel is hiring for this position in San Francisco, US (Hybrid).
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, infrastructure.
What seniority level is this role?
Mixpanel targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Query Service role at Mixpanel.

From the original posting

About Mixpanel

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 mixpanel.com.

About the Team

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.

The Query Serving team owns the entrypoint to Mixpanel's analytics capabilities. They're responsible for our Query API as well as the infrastructure for planning queries and protecting our systems at scale. They work on initiatives like defining the APIs for enabling agentic workflows, hardening our query infrastructure in preparation for significantly increased AI query volume, and establishing our strategy for warehouse interoperability.

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join this organization.

  • 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, business metrics, and design context.
  • We start with customer problems. We reason from first principles. We challenge assumptions. We aim for simple solutions to complex problems and avoid unnecessary abstraction.
  • Engineering owns execution, quality, and operations. There are no project managers, QA teams, or separate SREs. Ownership stays with the people building the product.
  • We value written thinking, dashboards, and demos over slide decks. We work openly using tools like Slack, GitHub, Mixpanel, Notion, Figma, and Zoom.
  • Our team is distributed across North America, with strong clusters in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Austin.

Responsibilities

  • Lead an engineering team and grow its scope over time. This role is for someone who loves developing people and unlocking their potential.
  • Build an exceptional team by hiring well, coaching deeply, and creating a culture where engineers feel ownership and pride in what they ship.
  • Shape direction alongside Product, turning big ideas into focused execution and helping teams move fast without losing quality.
  • Set the technical bar and protect the system. Depending on level, this may mean hands-on technical leadership or empowering tech leads with clarity and trust.

Requirements

  • 6+ years engineering experience; 2+ years leading engineering teams
  • Experience building and running infrastructure supporting real-world, customer-facing web applications.
  • Experience building and using AI-powered products in production environments.
  • Proven collaboration with product managers and designers on meaningful infrastructure.
  • Strong judgment in technical tradeoffs, backed by lessons learned.
  • Evidence of leadership through influence, alignment, and growing others.
  • Director candidates must have experience managing managers.
  • Skilled at navigating ambiguity, making tradeoffs, and bringing clarity to complex org structures
  • High level of ownership, accountability, and product intuition

Additional Resources

Compensation

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 including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.

Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Mixpanel Compensation Range
$279,000$377,000 USD

Benefits and Perks

  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
  • Mental Wellness Benefit
  • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

  • Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
  • Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
  • One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
  • Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
  • Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
  • Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

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