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Engineering Manager, Query Service
Mixpanel INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 4 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 5 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 4 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 5 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 • Engineering Life Page • Engineering Blog 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. Variabl