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 Staff Security Engineer to partner with our product and engineering teams on how we build and run Mixpanel securely. You'll help design and implement security features in our product, set the security approach for how we adopt and build with AI, and lead the work to reduce existing risk in our engineering environment through lasting, platform-level solutions rather than one-off fixes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering, with significant time in product security or infrastructure security
- A track record of working closely with product and engineering teams, and of shipping security features or platform changes together with them
- Deep product and application security expertise, including threat modeling, secure design review, and common vulnerability classes such as authentication and authorization flaws and multi-tenant isolation issues
- Experience designing and implementing product security features such as authentication, authorization, SSO (SAML/OIDC), audit logging, or encryption
- Strong infrastructure security experience in GCP or AWS, including IAM, network security, and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
- Production Kubernetes security experience, including cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, admission controllers, and container image security
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 Staff Security Engineer to partner with our product and engineering teams on how we build and run Mixpanel securely. You'll help design and implement security features in our product, set the security approach for how we adopt and build with AI, and lead the work to reduce existing risk in our engineering environment through lasting, platform-level solutions rather than one-off fixes. This is a hands-on technical role: you'll review designs, harden systems and pipelines, and build the kind of trust with engineering and product leaders that makes security part of how they plan and ship.
- Secure product design: Partner with product managers and engineers from the start of new initiatives to threat model, review designs, and define security requirements before...
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