Job Details

Overview

Senior Software Engineer, Session Replay at Mixpanel. Session Replay is a fast-growing product area that gives customers visibility into user behavior by letting them watch how people interact with products. The role involves building full stack features to help customers debug, optimize, and understand user journeys, from capturing rage clicks and console errors to creating heatmaps and cross-page replay stitching. As a Full Stack Engineer on the Session Replay team, you will work across the stack to deliver high-impact, user-facing products and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, and GTM teams to iterate quickly and balance frontend polish with backend robustness. The role directly impacts thousands of customers and millions of users in a fast-paced, product-led environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship customer-facing web application features for Session Replay and related experiences
• Design and implement performant APIs, backend services, and intuitive frontend components
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and GTM partners to define and deliver high-quality solutions
• Lead projects from idea through launch, including monitoring and follow-up
• Drive business impact while maintaining technical excellence
• Navigate trade-offs between product scope, speed, performance, and maintainability
• (Bonus) Explore and learn about application deployment, observability, and production readiness

What You'll Do

• Build and ship customer-facing web application features for Session Replay and related experiences
• Design and implement performant APIs, backend services, and intuitive frontend components
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and GTM partners to define and deliver high-quality solutions
• Lead projects from idea through launch, including monitoring and follow-up
• Drive business impact while maintaining technical excellence
• Navigate trade-offs between product scope, speed, performance, and maintainability
• (Bonus) Explore and learn about application deployment, observability, and production readiness

What We're Looking For

• Proven ability to own problems end-to-end and ship customer value
• Comfortable working across the stack — from backend services to polished frontend UIs
• Bonus: Curiosity around DevOps, deployment, and production engineering

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 level. In 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.

Salary range: $229,500 - $280,500 USD

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

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 drive powerful 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 Mixpanel?

We're a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and significant investor backing. Mixpanel's event-based data analytics platform helps companies understand user behaviors and track metrics. Our teams tackle scaling, reliability, design, and service challenges to help customers learn from their data and make better decisions.

Equal Opportunity

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. 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. We encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We comply with applicable laws including the SF Fair Chance Ordinance where applicable.