Security Engineer Intern - Cloud Security

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and Liftoff's solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. The Liftoff Security team protects Liftoff's customers, users, and employees. it, and partner with engineering teams as they ship new products and features. Our work spans the entire stack — infrastructure, web, mobile, and IT — and we approach security from a software engineering standpoint, scaling our impact information and event management platform (SIEM), established detection content, and a working incident response program. to the next level — including leading our investment in AI-augmented SOC Security-conscious engineering culture. Hands-on technical work. partner across the security team on cloud, infrastructure, and application second across its demand-side platform (DSP), mobile software development kit (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 (e.g. remediation with stakeholders across Engineering and IT. * Partner with Engineering and IT to make detection and response self-service where possible — clear log-onboarding paths, documented detection proposals, Partner across the security team on cloud, infrastructure, and application Participate in the Security team's on-call rotation and incident response.

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. * Strong technical writing — design docs, runbooks, and post-incident reviews. * Demonstrated judgment in prioritizing security work using a risk-based 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) 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. * This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New Travel Expectations: limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. team building.

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