Remote Detection & Response Security Engineer

Liftoff; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. We are hiring a Security Engineer to run our SIEM (Panther) and drive an AI-augmented SOC modernization, partnering with engineering and IT to detect, investigate, and contain threats at scale.

You will own detection content, triage alerts, lead incident response, and build automation to reduce toil while maintaining security posture across our globally distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, security operations, detection engineering, or software with a security focus.
• Hands-on production SIEM operation — onboarding log sources, writing/detect content, triaging alerts.
• Write production-quality code for security automation and detection-as-code.
• Experience leading or contributing to security incident response.
• Strong technical writing — design docs, runbooks, post-incident reviews.
• Judgment in prioritizing security work using a risk-based approach.
• Ability to navigate large codebases and reason about complex systems.
• Excellent verbal communication and willingness to on-call.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation of Liftoff’s SIEM (Panther) — log ingestion, content, and alert pipeline.
• Lead Liftoff’s adoption of AI-augmented SOC tooling as a multi-year modernization effort.
• Triage security alerts and drive timely investigation with Engineering and IT.
• Lead incident response — containment, investigation, and post-incident reviews.
• Build tooling and automation to detect threats and reduce manual toil.
• Partner with Engineering/IT to enable self-service detection with clear log onboarding and runbooks.
• Close the feedback loop between offensive findings and detection coverage.
• Collaborate across security on cloud, infrastructure, and app security.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.

Skills

Security engineering

Security operations

SIEM operation

Security automation

Incident response

Technical writing

Risk prioritization

On-call readiness

Verbal communication

Tools

Panther SIEM

Prophet Security

Dropzone AI

AWS

Job description

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. We are hiring a Security Engineer to run our SIEM (Panther) and drive an AI-augmented SOC modernization, partnering with engineering and IT to detect, investigate, and contain threats at scale.

You will own detection content, triage alerts, lead incident response, and build automation to reduce toil while maintaining security posture across our globally distributed systems.