Mixpanel (YC S09) is hiring low-level systems engineers

Hi HN,

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.

The Systems team (currently 3) is primarily focused on low-level systems programming, scaling, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities of this role include:

  * 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

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:

  * 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.

We’re looking for candidates with:

  * 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
  

Why join Mixpanel?

  * 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.

If this sounds interesting, please get in touch. I’d love to hear about the systems you’ve built & scaling problems you’ve solved.

Tim Trefren tim@mixpanel.com

For more info, check out http://mixpanel.com/jobs