AI-Driven Security Detection & Response Engineer

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 172,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly company

Job summary

Liftoff, a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to own the SIEM, incident response, and AI‑augmented tooling initiatives.

You will lead detection engineering, triage alerts, and build automation across cloud, infrastructure, and application security, partnering with engineering and IT to scale security for millions of requests per second.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 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.
• Build tooling and automation that detects active threats and reduces manual investigation toil.
• Partner with Engineering and IT to enable self-service detection and onboarding.
• Close the feedback loop between offensive findings and detection coverage.
• Collaborate across cloud, infrastructure, and application security with the team.
• Participate in Security team's on-call rotation and incident response.

Skills

Security engineering

Security operations

Detection engineering

Security incident response

Written communication

On-call readiness

Code for security automation

Tools

Panther SIEM

AI-augmented SOC tooling (Prophet, Dropzone)

Security tooling automation

Job description

Liftoff, a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to own the SIEM, incident response, and AI‑augmented tooling initiatives.

You will lead detection engineering, triage alerts, and build automation across cloud, infrastructure, and application security, partnering with engineering and IT to scale security for millions of requests per second.