Security Engineer, Detection & Response

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Liftoff is hiring a senior security engineer focused on detection and response to operate and enhance their SIEM platform (Panther) and lead adoption of AI-augmented SOC tooling. The role involves triaging security alerts, leading incident response, building automation tooling, and partnering with engineering and IT teams on security efforts across cloud, infrastructure, and applications. Candidates must have 5+ years of relevant security engineering or operations experience, hands-on SIEM operation, coding skills for security automation, incident response leadership, strong technical writing, and communication skills. The position is full-time remote within the US and requires participation in on-call rotations. Compensation ranges from $172,000 to $240,000 depending on location. Benefits include competitive salary, equity, medical coverage, wellness stipends, and other perks.