Proactive Security Engineer at Liftoff

Remote

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

The proactive security team at Liftoff secures our products, services, infrastructure, and corporate assets. The team ensures security risks are identified and remediated before someone else finds them and partners with other engineering teams to ensure security is considered throughout the software development process. We approach security from a software engineering standpoint and believe in scaling security through automation and tooling.

Location:

This role is eligible for remote work in the following states:

California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, and Washington

Why this will be great?

We are an influential industry leader in the programmatic advertising space. We have tremendous commercial demand and traction for our product
High visibility and high impact as an early member of the security team
Interesting projects over many domains (product security, vendor security, corp security, infrastructure security, etc.)
We work on extremely-large scale and interesting technical challenges

Responsibilities

Create frictionless paths for engineering teams to securely build and deploy
Build pragmatic solutions to maintain an acceptable risk level while achieving business requirements
Develop tooling and automation to automatically prevent and detect security risks within our systems
Partner with key stakeholders across the organization to build a culture full of security minded builders
Ensure vulnerabilities are identified and remediated with an appropriate timeline

Requirements

Demonstrate excellent judgment in prioritizing security efforts using a risk-based approach
5+ years of experience in security engineering or software engineering
Comfortable reading / writing / maintaining code in a variety of languages

Previous experience with Go, Python, Clojure, or JavaScript is a plus.

Ability to quickly understand complex engineering systems, architectures, and business needs
Proven track record of scaling code and cloud infrastructure security
Proven experience with security infrastructure

E.g., event monitoring, SAST / DAST, identity & access management

Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver widely impactful security initiatives
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location.The minimum base pay for this position in the US depends on the location and falls in the following zones:

SF Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Orange County: $133,100
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $119,790
All other cities in our approved to hire states: $113,135

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

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