Liftoff

Liftoff

Security Engineer, Detection & Response

United States (Remote) · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$240kDetected 4 days ago
Cloud PlatformsCI/CDNLPLLMsCybersecuritySIEMSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponsePerformance MarketingRecruitingCompensationSignal ProcessingCommunicationCollaborationWriting

About the role

  • Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.
  • Your charter is to take it to the next level - including leading our investment in AI-augmented SOC tooling. - High visibility, high impact.
  • Detection and response is a critical capability for Liftoff. - Security-conscious engineering culture.

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day operation of Liftoff's SIEM (Panther) - log source ingestion, detection content, and the alert investigation pipeline.
  • Lead Liftoff's adoption of AI-augmented SOC tooling (e.g. Prophet, Dropzone, or equivalent) as a multi-year modernization investment.
  • Triage incoming security alerts and drive timely investigation and remediation with stakeholders across Engineering and IT.
  • Lead incident response - investigation, containment, and post-incident review - and mature processes and runbooks so response becomes predictable and repeatable.
  • Build tooling and automation that detects active threats, enriches alerts, and reduces manual investigation toil.
  • Partner with Engineering and IT to make detection and response self-service where possible - clear log-onboarding paths, documented detection proposals, accessible runbooks - so security scales without becoming a bottleneck.
  • Partner across the security team on cloud, infrastructure, and application security work alongside your detection and response focus - every engineer on this team covers breadth beyond their primary focus.
  • These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in security engineering, security operations, detection engineering, or software engineering with a security focus.
  • Experience leading or substantially contributing to security incident response.
  • Ability to quickly navigate large, unfamiliar codebases and reason about complex engineering systems.
  • Hands-on experience with an AI-augmented SOC platform (Prophet Security, Dropzone AI, or equivalent), or with building large language model (LLM) augmented investigation and runbook tooling.
  • Experience operating in cloud environments at scale.
  • All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening.
  • Cloud incident response experience, particularly in AWS.
  • Endpoint forensics for incident response on Mac and/or Linux.
  • Detection-as-code workflows in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Mobile adtech or high-volume SaaS background.

Skills

  • Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy.
  • Now is the time to join!
  • High visibility, high impact. Detection and response is a critical capability for Liftoff.
  • Hands-on technical work. Stay deep in code, detections, and incidents.

Compensation

  • The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
  • SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $200,000 - $240,000
  • All other California and Washington state locations, Austin, Boston, Denver, Portland: $184,000 - $220,000
  • All other cities and towns in our approved states: $172,000 - $206,000
  • Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance.
  • We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment.

Benefits

  • may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.
  • Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance.
  • Close the feedback loop between the team's offensive and proactive findings and detection coverage.

Company info

  • This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.
  • We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.
  • We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events.

Equal opportunity

  • Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.
Apply directly at Liftoff →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Liftoff immigration profile

This listing is sourced directly from Liftoff's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.