Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
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 response is a critical capability for Liftoff.
Security-conscious engineering culture. Liftoff's engineering org is a willing and capable partner on security work.
Hands-on technical work. Stay deep in code, detections, and incidents.
Breadth of work. Detection and response is the primary focus, but you'll partner across the security team on cloud, infrastructure, and application security where the work demands it.
Large-scale, interesting systems. Liftoff processes millions of requests per second across its demand-side platform (DSP), mobile software development kit (SDK), and ad exchange.
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
, CAN
Liftoff is hiring a Commercial Finance Manager for its Strategic Finance team to support revenue reporting, forecasting, executive materials, and commercial decision-making. Candidates need substantial finance experience
, USA
, CAN
, CAN
California, USA
, USA
Pacific, USA
Pacific, USA
, USA
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.
Ability to quickly navigate large, unfamiliar codebases and reason about complex engineering systems.
Excellent verbal communication.
Willing to participate in an on-call rotation.
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.
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 is a mobile app marketing and monetization platform that helps advertisers, publishers, and game developers scale their revenue growth.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsUSD 200000-240000 / year
Mid · 5+ years experience
Remote
Apply faster on company sites with our extension.