Security Engineer

About Mixpanel

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About the Role

Mixpanel's Information Security & Risk Management (ISRM) team is hiring a Security Engineer to run the day-to-day work of our security operations: vulnerability management, detection and monitoring, and incident response. You'll work closely with engineering teams to find and close real risk, tune our detections so every alert is worth investigating, and use AI to make triage and investigation faster. This is a hands-on role for an engineer early to mid-way in their career, with a defined path to Senior Security Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Vulnerability management: Triage findings from vulnerability scanners, penetration tests, bug bounty reports, and dependency tooling. Validate exploitability and impact in our environment, and assign severity accordingly.
• Remediation with engineering: Work with engineering teams to agree on fixes and timelines, track each vulnerability through to closure within SLA, and escalate items at risk of missing it.
• Detection and monitoring: Build, tune, and maintain detections in our SIEM across cloud, identity, endpoint, and application logs, and cut false positives so on-call time goes to real threats.
• AI-assisted security operations: Use AI tools (e.g. Claude Code) to speed up alert triage, enrich investigations, write and test detection logic, and automate repetitive SecOps work.
• Incident response: Investigate and respond to security incidents from first alert through containment, eradication, and recovery, and write clear post-incident reviews with follow-up actions.
• Coverage and runbooks: Identify gaps in log sources and detection coverage, onboard new sources, and keep runbooks current so the team responds consistently.
• On-call: Take part in the security on-call rotation.

We're Looking For Someone With

• 3-5 years of experience in security engineering, security operations, detection and response, or a related role
• Hands-on vulnerability management experience, including triaging and validating scanner and pentest findings and working with engineers to remediate them
• Experience working in a SIEM (e.g. Splunk, Google SecOps/Chronicle, Panther, Elastic), including writing queries and building or tuning detections
• Experience investigating and responding to security incidents
• Understanding of common attack techniques and how to detect them, for example using MITRE ATT&CK
• Working knowledge of cloud security in GCP or AWS, including IAM, audit logging, and common misconfigurations
• Scripting skills in Python, Go, or a similar language to automate tasks and work with log data
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude Code) to automate security workflows, or a strong interest in building that skill
• Sound judgment on severity and risk, including knowing when to escalate and when an issue can wait
• Ability to explain security issues clearly to engineers and get fixes prioritized without slowing teams down unnecessarily
• Strong written communication and follow-through, with the ability to manage many concurrent items and work independently

Nice to Have

• Experience with detection-as-code (e.g. Sigma rules, version-controlled detections with CI testing)
• Experience with EDR tools (e.g. CrowdStrike, SentinelOne)
• Experience with SOAR or workflow automation platforms (e.g. Tines, Torq)
• Experience with Kubernetes and container security
• Experience running or supporting a bug bounty program
• GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, OSCP, or similar certification

What Success Looks Like

• First 3 months: You understand our environment, log sources, and vulnerability pipeline, triage incoming findings and alerts on your own, and have joined the on-call rotation.
• By 6 months: You own the vulnerability triage queue end-to-end, have tuned our noisiest detections to reduce false positives, and have led the response to incidents.
• By 12 months: You've shipped at least one AI-assisted workflow that measurably reduces triage or investigation time, added detections for coverage gaps you identified, and are taking on larger projects as you grow toward Senior Security Engineer.

Growth Path

This role is part of a defined security engineering career path. As you build experience, you can grow into Senior Security Engineer, where you'll set the direction of our detection and response program, lead complex incidents, and design security improvements with engineering teams.

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.

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.

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 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 choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s 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 you’ll be helping the world’s 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 matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out 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. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.