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Security Engineer

Mixpanel · San Francisco · On-site

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About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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 .

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.

  • 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,...

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