Senior Security Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Mixpanel</strong></p> <p>Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit <a href="mixpanel.com" target="_blank">mixpanel.com</a> to learn more.</p></div><p><strong>About the Information Security Team</strong></p> <p>We believe security isn't just a function—it's 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Domain Ownership:</strong> Serve as the domain expert for Detection &amp; Response, integrating telemetry from across our entire ecosystem—including Product, Cloud, Corporate Infrastructure, and Identity—to build a unified, high-fidelity detection and response engine.</li> <li><strong>Technical Project Execution:</strong> Translate high-level project requirements and technical scoping documents into actionable milestones, managing task delivery and driving cross-functional results.</li> <li><strong>Architect Modern Detection:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Combat Modern Threats:</strong> Develop specialized detection logic and playbooks to identify and mitigate application-layer abuses, customer