# Staff 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: Senior
- 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/8357923?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mixpanel-staff-security-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

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