# Security Engineer at Mixpanel

- Company: Mixpanel
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://mixpanel.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $213K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mixpanel/jobs/8357913?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mixpanel-security-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mixpanel-security-engineer/