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Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Liftoff · United States (Remote) · Remote

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About Liftoff

Liftoff helps advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps. Backed by General Atlantic.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • Strong technical writing — design docs, runbooks, and post-incident reviews
  • Demonstrated judgment in prioritizing security work using a risk-based approach
More about this role

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.

  • Build out our detection and response function. Liftoff has a mature security information and event management platform (SIEM), established detection content, and a working...

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