Security Engineer: AI-Driven Detection & Incident Response

VulnU; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Vision, andA0D

Dental Care

Mental Wellness Benefit

Generous Vacation Policy

Parental Leave

Volunteer Time Off

401(k)

Wellness Benefit

Job summary

Mixpanel is seeking a Security Engineer to run day-to-day security operations, including vulnerability management, detection, and incident response. You will partner with engineering to close real risk and tune detections so alerts are meaningful.

The role emphasizes hands-on work, with a clear path to Senior Security Engineer and opportunities to deploy AI-assisted workflows to reduce triage time.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in security engineering or security operations.
• Hands-on triage of scanner/pentest findings and remediation with engineers.
• Ability to build/tune detections in SIEM and write queries.
• Experience with AI tools to accelerate SecOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Vulnerability triage, validation, and SLA-based remediation.
• Build and tune detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, and apps.
• Investigate security incidents from first alert to recovery.
• Develop AI-assisted workflows to speed triage and investigations.

Skills

Vulnerability management

SIEM tuning

Cloud security (AWS/GCP)

Incident response

MITRE ATT&CK knowledge

Scripting (Python/Go)

AI-assisted security workflows

Security communication

Education

GCIA/GCFA/OSCP or similar

Tools

Splunk

Google Chronicle

Elastic

Panther

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Kubernetes

Job description

Mixpanel is seeking a Security Engineer to run day-to-day security operations, including vulnerability management, detection, and incident response. You will partner with engineering to close real risk and tune detections so alerts are meaningful.

The role emphasizes hands-on work, with a clear path to Senior Security Engineer and opportunities to deploy AI-assisted workflows to reduce triage time.