Liftoff
AI-powered performance marketing platform
SecurityEngineer,Detection&Response
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“Security Engineer, Detection & Response at Liftoff. Skills: Detection and response, SIEM operation, AI-augmented SOC tooling, Incident response leadership, Security automation. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
Build out our detection and response function; Take detection and response to the next level; Reduce manual investigation toil; Make detection and response self-service where possible; Ensure security scales without becoming a bottleneck; Close the feedback loop between offensive/proactive findings and detection coverage
Industry & Context.
Reason about complex engineering systems; Navigate large, unfamiliar codebases; Investigate security alerts; Contain and remediate security incidents
Willing to participate in an on-call rotation, Attend in-person team gatherings at least once per quarter
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years in security engineering, security operations, detection engineering, or software engineering with a security focus, Hands-on production SIEM operation — onboarding log sources, writing and maintaining detection content, and triaging alerts, Write production-quality code for security automation and detection-as-code, Experience leading or substantially contributing to security incident response, technical writing — design docs, runbooks, and post-incident reviews, Demonstrated judgment in prioritizing security work using a risk-based approach, Ability to quickly navigate large, unfamiliar codebases and reason about complex engineering systems, Excellent verbal communication, Willing to participate in an on-call rotation
Nice to Have
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, 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
What You'll Do.
Own day-to-day operation of Liftoff's SIEM (Panther) — log source ingestion
and the alert investigation pipeline
Lead Liftoff's adoption of AI-augmented SOC tooling (e. g. Prophet
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
and post-incident review — and mature processes and runbooks so response becomes predictable and repeatable
Build tooling and automation that detects active threats
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
Close the feedback loop between the team's offensive and proactive findings and detection coverage
Partner across the security team on cloud
and application security work alongside your detection and response focus
Participate in the Security team's on-call rotation and incident response
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Engineering and IT teams; Partner across the security team; Collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering and IT for alert triage and remediation; Work with offensive and proactive security findings
Communication Scope
Excellent verbal communication
Process & Methodology
Lead Liftoff's adoption of AI-augmented SOC tooling as a multi-year modernization investment, Mature incident response processes and runbooks
Full Job Description
Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. 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. Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence. Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. 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. Liftoff's solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence. The Liftoff Security team protects Liftoff's customers, users, and employees. We architect Liftoff's security posture, build the tools and systems that defend it, and partner with engineering teams as they ship new products and features. Our work spans the entire stack — infrastructure, web, mobile, and IT — and we approach security from a software engineering standpoint, scaling our impact through automation and well-designed tools. Now is the time to join! Here's why: Build out our detection and response function. Liftoff has a mature security information and event management platform (SIEM), established detection content, and a working incident response program. 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
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