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Senior Analytics Engineer

Senior Analytics Engineer

MixpanelSan Francisco, California, USA
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About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertipsno SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product marketing and company revenue metrics they are poised to make better decisions.

Over 9000 paid customers including companies like Netflix Pinterest Sweetgreen and Samsara use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.

About this Role

Mixpanel is seeking a data-driven and strategic Senior Analytics Engineer to join our growing Analytics team. This role is essential to scaling our analytics capabilities across GTM Post-Sales and Product functions. You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders including software engineers data scientists product leaders and go-to-market teams to build scalable data infrastructure and deliver high-quality trustworthy datasets that power impactful decision-making.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer youll lead initiatives to clean and own product utilization pipelines enhance customer data platform (CDP) infrastructure and reduce operational friction across teams by enabling self-serve analytics. This is a high-impact role with the opportunity to shape Mixpanels analytics function over the next several quarters and beyond.

Responsibilities

  • Data Infrastructure Ownership : Lead the design build and maintenance of data pipelines that power GTM attribution account health ROI and product usage analytics.
  • Enable Self-Serve Analytics : Collaborate with stakeholders to produce clean structured datasets that simplify access and analysis for GTM and Product teams.
  • CDP Development & Trust : Augment and improve our customer data platform (CDP) ensuring data accuracy and completeness for downstream consumers.
  • Cross-Functional Partnering : Translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into data models and dashboards that support strategic business decisions.
  • Data Quality & Governance : Establish trust in data through testing validation documentation and quality monitoring.
  • Strategic Projects : Drive medium- to long-term roadmap initiatives that reduce data science dependency and improve product metric reliability.

Were Looking For Someone Who Has

  • Bachelors Degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science Statistics Engineering or a related discipline.
  • 5 years of experience in analytics engineering data engineering or similar roles.
  • Hands-on experience with dbt (DBT Core Github Actions) for modern data transformation and modeling workflows.
  • Expertise in SQL including writing efficient and complex queries for large-scale data transformation and modeling.
  • Proficiency in Python for data transformation automation and workflow orchestration.
  • Experience with collaborative software development practices including version control (Git) and CI / CD pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience in ETL / ELT pipeline development and data modeling (e.g. star / snowflake schemas).
  • Familiarity with data warehousing platforms like BigQuery Snowflake or Redshift.
  • Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical partners.
  • A proactive collaborative mindset and the ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments.
  • Comfort navigating stakeholder priorities in a high-growth startup environment.

    • Bonus Points For

  • Familiarity with product analytics and user behavior metrics.
  • Experience with using and / or implementing Mixpanel.
  • Exposure to data ingestion tools like Fivetran Airbyte etc.
  • Experience building or maintaining CDPs or event-driven pipelines.
  • Prior work supporting GTM sales or customer success teams with analytics.
  • A passion for multiplying the impact of data science by reducing overhead and increasing data accessibility.
  • Outstanding technical writing skills.

    • 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 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

    165000 - $214190 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 drivepowerful 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

    Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors : like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels 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 youll be helping the worlds 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 matterour people our customers our partnersout 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. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

    Required Experience :

    Senior IC

    Key Skills

    Adobe Analytics,Data Analytics,SQL,Attribution Modeling,Power BI,R,Regression Analysis,Data Visualization,Tableau,Data Mining,SAS,Analytics

    Employment Type : Full Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 165000 - 214190

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