Senior Security Engineer

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform trusted by more than 29000 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 whats working diagnose whats not and decide what to build next. Learn more at .

About the Information Security Team

We believe security isnt just a functionits a platform for bold ideas. The Information Security Team at Mixpanel is a small high-impact group committed to building a frictionless security program that serves as a model for our company and the broader industry. This is a team for those who are never satisfied who dream big and who have the resilience to see those ideas through.

We operate at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution where we are critical partners to every team at Mixpanel. Our work requires a broad generalist skill set across vulnerability management threat detection and access management. We strategically balance necessary compliance work with proactive initiatives with a constant focus on automation as the path to a more efficient security program.

We use our expertise in a variety of well-known security platforms and tools to create seamless automated processes that empower our peers. We are a lean team by design and we succeed or fail together committed to transparent communication and a strong sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Domain Ownership: Serve as the domain expert for Detection & Response integrating telemetry from across our entire ecosystemincluding Product Cloud Corporate Infrastructure and Identityto build a unified high-fidelity detection and response engine.
• Technical Project Execution: Translate high-level project requirements and technical scoping documents into actionable milestones managing task delivery and driving cross-functional results.
• Architect Modern Detection: Design and implement precise actionable alerting within Google Security Operations (SIEM/SOAR) treating detections as code and ensuring they scale with our high-volume data ingestion.
• Combat Modern Threats: Develop specialized detection logic and playbooks to identify and mitigate application-layer abuses customer account-targeted events (ATO) and sophisticated social engineering.
• Operational Lead (EMEA): Serve as the primary technical lead for security incidents during EMEA hours driving investigations containment efforts and cross-functional communication.
• Build Threat Intelligence: Evolve Mixpanels threat intelligence program by identifying relevant adversaries and translating tactical intel into proactive SIEM/SOAR logic.
• Infrastructure Management: Ensure the operational health and telemetry flow of our core security stackincluding SentinelOne GCP ****Security Command Center and Mimecast Incydrto maintain continuous visibility and alerting integrity.

Were Looking For Someone Who Has

• Security Engineering Foundations: Experience operating across the core pillars of a modern security programincluding Product Cloud and Corporate Security. You are comfortable navigating Identity (IAM) threat modeling and secure code reviews as part of a unified team.
• Detection & Response Specialization: A deep understanding of the detection-as-code lifecycle. You have experience turning raw telemetry into precise actionable alerting and building the infrastructure required to defend a high-scale SaaS environment.
• Operational Execution: The ability to manage a high volume of daily security tasks. You are prepared to handle a diverse range of responsibilitiesfrom triaging vulnerabilities and policy violations to investigating suspicious activity across the entire stack.
• Cloud Data Proficiency: Proficiency with the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem (specifically Cloud Logging BigQuery and Pub/Sub) to build automated security data pipelines and maintain visibility across high-volume environments.
• Modern Automation & AI: Proficiency in Python to develop automated workflows and integrate security tools via APIs. You are comfortable leveraging AI and LLMs to build autonomous security workflowssuch as automated alert enrichment intelligent incident summarization and AI-assisted code analysisto drastically reduce time-to-context.

Bonus Points For

• Threat Intelligence Maturity: Experience evaluating and embedding external intelligenceincluding dark web monitoring brand protection and adversary tacticsinto a security program. You know how to identify where a specific intelligence source provides the most defensive value and how to integrate that data into automated workflows.
• Security Outreach & Mentorship: Experience leading Security Champions initiatives or a demonstrated ability to elevate the security IQ of non-security teams. You help others think critically about threat identification and telemetryexplaining the why behind visibility requirements when building new features or onboarding third-party vendors.
• Deception & Canary Strategies: Familiarity with deploying deception techniques (e.g. honeytokens canary credentials or fake internal endpoints) to provide high-fidelity signals of unauthorized lateral movement or credential misuse.
• Platform & Infrastructure Experience: Prior experience with enterprise-grade security tools such as Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Email Security gateways and Cloud-native Security Command Centers.
• SaaS & Analytics Scale: Experience defending an environment with massive high-volume data ingestion and complex user-access patterns similar to Mixpanels architecture.
• Offensive Security Exposure: Experience with vulnerability coordination platforms automated external scanning or managing findings from bug bounty programs.

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 drivepowerful 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

Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels 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 youll be helping the worlds 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 matterour people our customers our partnersout 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. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.