Job brief: Staff Security Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Mixpanel's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-07 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Mixpanel's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $230,000 to $300,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · San Francisco · Remote, US
• Posted: 2026-11-06

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering, with significant time in product security or infrastructure security
• Hands-on experience hardening GitHub at the organization level, including SSO and access management, branch protection and rulesets, required reviews and CODEOWNERS, GitHub Action…
• CKS, OSWE, OSCP, or similar certification
• The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations.

Conditions

• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

Main duties

• Secure product design: Partner with product managers and engineers from the start of new initiatives to threat model, review designs, and define security req…
• Security feature implementation: Design and build security features alongside product teams, such as SSO and SCIM, fine-grained access controls, audit loggin…
• Strategic risk remediation: Identify systemic risks in our engineering environment, prioritize them by impact, and lead multi-quarter efforts that remove who…
• Infrastructure and Kubernetes security: Define and drive adoption of security baselines for our cloud and Kubernetes environments, including RBAC, network po…
• AI security: Set the security approach for how Mixpanel adopts and builds with AI. Threat model AI-powered product features and agentic workflows for risks s…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $193k a year (632 listings, 42 employers). This listing is 38% higher.
• Across Mixpanel's 27 open listings, 19% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Mixpanel hires

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