Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mixpanel is a leader in analytics, providing AI-first digital analytics to help companies improve user engagement. The Software Engineer on Proactive Insights will build features that enhance data insights for users, collaborating with Product and Design teams to create an innovative analytics experience.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered features end-to-end, from agent logic and query orchestration to frontend visualization and delivery
- Design and implement user experiences for surfacing automated insights: dashboards, notifications, digests, and interactive analysis flows
- Collaborate with Product and Design to define what proactive analytics looks like and how users interact with AI-generated insights
- Partner with the AI Engine team to integrate shared tooling for agent orchestration, evaluation, and observability
- Instrument tracking and build dashboards to measure feature adoption and the quality of AI-generated insights
- Participate in team on-call rotation to improve our systems and keep them healthy
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2 to 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack fundamentals: you're comfortable working across frontend, backend, and data layers
- Excellent debugging and technical investigation skills
- Strong technical communication, ideally with experience collaborating in an asynchronous remote environment
- Ability to move fast and iterate in ambiguous, greenfield problem spaces: you take ownership and focus on delivering value to users
- A data-driven mindset and genuine curiosity about how people use analytics tools
- A desire to be on the forefront of leveraging AI to drive product improvement at thousands of companies
- Experience building with LLMs, AI agents, or tool-use frameworks
- React / TypeScript experience
- Django / Python experience
- Familiarity with analytics or observability platforms
- Interest in information retrieval, anomaly detection, or statistical analysis
Benefits
- 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
Company Overview
Mixpanel turns data into decisions with analytics that simplify insights, guide decisions, and measure product and marketing impact. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://mixpanel.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Mixpanel has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 12 in 2025, 12 in 2024, 10 in 2023, 22 in 2022, 6 in 2021, 12 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.