Senior AI-Driven Security Detection & Response Engineer

Neura Market; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Liftoff, a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform, is seeking a Security Engineer to own the SIEM operations and drive AI-augmented SOC modernization. You will triage alerts, guide incident response, and build automation for scalable security across the platform.

You will collaborate with Engineering and IT teams, maintain detection content, and contribute to runbooks and post-incident reviews in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

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, 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 so response becomes predictable and repeatable.
• Build tooling and automation that detects active threats, enriches alerts, and reduces manual investigation toil.
• Partner with Engineering and IT for self-service detection Enablement — clear log-onboarding paths, detection proposals, runbooks.

Skills

Security engineering

Security operations

Detection engineering

Software security

On-call readiness

Tools

Panther SIEM

Job description

Liftoff, a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform, is seeking a Security Engineer to own the SIEM operations and drive AI-augmented SOC modernization. You will triage alerts, guide incident response, and build automation for scalable security across the platform.

You will collaborate with Engineering and IT teams, maintain detection content, and contribute to runbooks and post-incident reviews in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.