Staff Security Engineer: Product & AI Security

Candidate; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental care

Mental Wellness Benefit

Vacation policy and PTO

Parental Leave

Volunteer Time Off

Pre-Tax Benefits (401(K))

Job summary

Mixpanel is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to partner with product and engineering teams to design and run secure systems across AI, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. You will own security strategies, threat modeling, and the rollout of guardrails, rotating credentials, and audits.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, drive secure defaults, and influence roadmaps while aligning security with product goals and compliance needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in security or infrastructure engineering.
• 2nd line?
• Proven track record shipping security features with product/engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of SDLC hardening, CI/CD, and multi-tenant security.

Responsibilities

• Secure product design by threat modeling and design reviews from inception.
• Build security features like authentication, authorization, SSO, audit logging, and encryption.
• Lead strategic remediation to remove systemic risks via secure defaults and guardrails.
• Define security baselines for cloud, Kubernetes, IAM, and network policies.
• Set AI security strategy and govern AI adoption and vendor reviews.
• Own secure development lifecycle and secrets management across pipelines.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat modeling

CI/CD security

Design reviews

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

GitHub (SSO/Org security)

Terraform

Kubernetes

HashiCorp Vault

AWS

GCP

OIDC

SBOM tooling

Job description

Mixpanel is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to partner with product and engineering teams to design and run secure systems across AI, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. You will own security strategies, threat modeling, and the rollout of guardrails, rotating credentials, and audits.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, drive secure defaults, and influence roadmaps while aligning security with product goals and compliance needs.