Hi HN,<p>I'm looking for excellent systems engineers to join the team at Mixpanel. We’re a 50 person team (11 eng) in San Francisco, and we’ve built the most flexible analytics platform in the world.<p>The Systems team (currently 3) is primarily focused on low-level systems programming, scaling, and infrastructure.<p>Responsibilities of this role include:<p><pre><code> * Working on our custom datastore (written from the ground up in C)
* Scaling the data processing pipeline (currently handling > 50K requests per second)
* Building notification delivery infrastructure (currently sending > 100M emails & push notifications per month)
* General improvements to performance, reliability, and security
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If I was looking for a job, the first question I’d ask is “what is your engineering culture like?”. So here’s what we care about:<p><pre><code> * We do very thorough, line-by-line code reviews using GitHub pull requests. This keeps our code quality high and helps us learn.
* We try to have two people work together on every project (collaborating, not pairing). It's more fun and it results in better code.
* We practice rapid iteration. If it's better than live, we ship. We also build things so they can go live (whitelisted) long before launch day.
* We write tests for things that are mission-critical, prone to failure, or cause paranoia. Think billing and datastore code, not Django views.
* We care about learning. Right now we're reading through Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
* We currently have 8 vim users, 2 IntelliJ, and 1 emacs holdout.
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We’re looking for candidates with:<p><pre><code> * at least 3 years of experience in industry
* mastery of at least one programming language
* US work authorization
* passion - you have built (and are dying to show us) something you're proud of, outside of work/school
* strong problem solving ability
* attention to detail
* you code as fluently as you speak
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Why join Mixpanel?<p><pre><code> * We are profitable, with millions in monthly revenue and over 2,200 paying customers.
* Mixpanel is still a small company, but we are poised for great growth.
* Our product is used by companies like amazon.com, Dropbox, Intuit, OpenTable, and Salesforce.
* We've raised money from top-tier investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator.
* There are a lot of cool people here. You will like the people you work with.
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If this sounds interesting, please get in touch. I’d love to hear about the systems you’ve built & scaling problems you’ve solved.<p>Tim Trefren
tim@mixpanel.com<p>For more info, check out <a href="http://mixpanel.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">http://mixpanel.com/jobs</a>