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Security Engineer, Offensive Security
Liftoff
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Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
What stands out most is that pay compares strongly with similar current roles. The biggest counterweight is that location rules could change the fit.
Around the 86th percentile within 21 comparable USD salary observations.
Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.
Decision evidence check
4 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Advertised location
- Employment type
What to verify next
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
- Pay compares strongly with similar current roles: The annualized midpoint is around the 86th percentile among 21 comparable USD salary observations.
Trade-offs to weigh
- Location rules could change the fit: Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
- Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Opportunity neighborhood
Keep your options open
These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.
Staff Enterprise Security Engineer
Databricks · USA
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work arrangement
About 2% lower advertised midpoint
Senior Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management
HackerOne · Netherlands, UK, USA
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work arrangement
About 8% lower advertised midpoint
Staff Application Security Engineer
Upside · USA
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work arrangement
About 11% higher advertised midpoint
Principal Product Security Engineer
Cribl · Remote — Worldwide
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
About 35% higher advertised midpoint
This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.
Role market context
How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?
This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Cybersecurity roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.
200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.
Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.
Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.
Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.
Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.
Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.
Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (74) · EUR (6) · CAD (2) · GBP (2). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.
This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.
Constraint opportunity lab
What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?
Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.
Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.
A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.
Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.
Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.
Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.
Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.
Uses only roles where a country is known. Roles without country evidence are excluded from this denominator.
Includes roles whose seniority is genuinely unspecified rather than assuming they belong to another level.
These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 397 visible roles in this broad family.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation. About 44% of the bounded current role sample does the same.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.
This employer’s current pay-disclosure rate is broadly similar to the current same-role sample.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork
Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.
Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.
Enter an annual base offer to compare it with explicit same-currency evidence. HPJ will not suggest a target for you.
Review the full package · 10 terms
Mark what is confirmed, what needs clarification and what you want to prioritize. These choices and notes stay in this browser.
Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship not established
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- What retirement or pension contribution does the employer provide?
- How much paid leave is provided and what are the carry-over or blackout rules?
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
- Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Occupation intelligence
What broader career references connect to this role?
HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.
European occupation references
- cyber incident responder
- cybersecurity risk manager
- ethical hacker
- digital forensics expert
- director of compliance and information security
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
U.S. occupation references
- Information Security Analysts 15-1212.00
- Digital Forensics Analysts 15-1299.06
- Penetration Testers 15-1299.04
- Information Security Engineers 15-1299.05
- Security Management Specialists 13-1199.07
This site incorporates information from O*NET Web Services by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Career reference research
Skills worth investigating
Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.
ESCO · European occupation
cyber incident responder
Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
- attack vectors
- ICT security standards
- GDPR
- security engineeringPhrase in listing
- security threats
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
Context-dependent ESCO skills
- manage keys for data protection
- consult with business clients
- cloud technologies
- ICT process quality models
- troubleshoot
O*NET · U.S. occupation
Information Security Analysts
O*NET occupation skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
- Speaking
- WritingPhrase in listing
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Monitoring
Build my private skill preparation brief Your evidence · Practice · Interview questions
Plan how you might demonstrate or investigate occupational skills. These are broad-family reference examples, not confirmed vacancy requirements. Nothing you enter is sent to High Paid Job.
Private to this browser. Up to 20 reference skills; not a qualification assessment or hiring prediction.
Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?
These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.
Adjacent current roles to investigate
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same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceSenior Software Engineer* Agentic AI
Accso – Accelerated Solutions GmbH · München
same seniority band · same employment typeAdjacent-family roles are exploration prompts from current HPJ inventory. They are not inferred qualification matches and they do not imply a promotion path.
Career move map
What sits one step away?
This listing is currently read as Senior / lead. Nearby roles one visible seniority step away can help you judge whether to widen the search, stretch upward or compare the responsibilities more carefully.
Broader-entry direction
MXDR Security Engineer
Heimdal Security · Remote — Worldwide
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently postedSecurity Engineer (100% remoto)
Logicalis Spain · Remote — Worldwide
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently postedStretch direction
Security Architect
NetBox Labs · USA
Same country · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type Advertised midpoint is roughly level with this roleApplication Security Engineer, Generative AI
Liftoff · Canada, USA
Same country · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type Advertised midpoint is roughly level with this roleThese are live roles one visible seniority step away in the same broad occupation family. They can reveal nearby options, but they are not a guaranteed promotion path and do not account for your personal experience.
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
JavaScript is one of the signals this listing shares with skills appearing often across current Cybersecurity roles opportunities.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
- JavaScript Seen in 10 sampled listings
- Python Seen in 51 sampled listings
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used JavaScript and Python rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
- The listing mentions extra application steps. Review those requirements before starting so you can prepare the requested material in one pass.
If the named skills are genuinely transferable in your own experience, the occupation map also points to adjacent current families worth researching: Software engineering roles and Data & AI roles. This is exploration context, not a qualification match.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 111 sampled listings; 106 contain a recognized skill signal.
Application Decision Lab
Turn the listing into a preparation plan
Separate what the listing actually states from what you still need to prepare or verify. Your selections and short notes stay in this browser and are never submitted to High Paid Job.
JavaScript
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Python
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Prepare for a stated application step
An assessment, test or work-sample step is explicitly mentioned.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
The headline alone does not tell the whole story for Security Engineer, Offensive Security at Liftoff. The clearest decision context comes from the advertised pay can be placed in context, work-location flexibility has usable detail, and the application route gives a few useful clues.
The advertised pay can be placed in context
Among 21 current comparable salaries in USD, the normalized annual midpoint is around the 86th percentile. This compares advertised pay in the same currency and does not include every element of total compensation.
Work-location flexibility has usable detail
Location flexibility can be assessed here: Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions, with a Remote Freedom reading of 62/100. The most important location constraint is geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region..
The application route gives a few useful clues
Provider-mediated application path · 1 visible process step. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
The listing can be traced to a current source
1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.
How this analysis is assembled
The brief pulls together the parts of the vacancy that can be compared reliably today. Gaps in the listing remain visible instead of being filled with assumptions.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The source posting date is today.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
- Advertised pay is above much of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
Visible cautions
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
Still unknown
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Strong pay with stated barriers to weigh
Pay compares strongly, but qualification or location constraints are also visible. Higher pay does not erase those practical requirements.
Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 86 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.
1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.
- Education requirement is not established.
- Required prior-experience level is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding
Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.
The annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 86% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Explainable opportunity highlight
Why this opportunity stands out
These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.
Its annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 86% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
The source provides structured salary information with a comparatively focused range, improving the usefulness of pay comparisons.
The source posting date is today.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
Above-market pay in current sample
The annualized midpoint is above the 75th percentile boundary of the current comparable sample.
The highlighted band is the middle 50% of the current comparable sample after the outlier guard. The dark marker is this job’s annualized salary midpoint.
Why this analysis?
- This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Focused salary range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Liftoff
Mixed current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Liftoff — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Legal (7) · Software engineering (6) · Finance Accounting (4)
Visible seniority mix: Senior / lead (13) · Leadership (6)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (13) · Contract (1)
Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (11) · Canada (2) · United Kingdom (1)
Other current roles from this employer
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USA
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteDirector, Strategic Deal Finance
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Leadership · Region-restricted remoteCorporate Tax Manager
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Leadership · Region-restricted remoteCommercial Legal Counsel (Contractor)
Seniority not clearly specified · On-site / hybridThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
Current disclosed salary medians by currency
- USD 206,000 median · 11 disclosed salaries
Questions worth asking this employer
- What compensation range applies to this role, and which parts of total compensation are fixed versus variable?
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
- What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions
Why this score?
- The role is remote but the source identifies a country or regional restriction.
Location restrictions detected
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
Current alternatives
Better-paying alternatives
These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.
Security Engineer, Agent Security
OpenAI · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Staff Product Security Engineer
Reddit · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Staff Application Security Engineer
Upside · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: jobicy.com · HTTPS
Visible application steps or requirements
- An assessment, test or work-sample step is explicitly mentioned.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
- Confirm the vacancy on the employer’s official careers site when practical, especially if a recruiter contacts you outside the listed application path.
- Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.
Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
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 retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, 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.
About Liftoff Security Team
The Liftoff Security team protects Liftoff's customers, users, and employees. We architect Liftoff's security posture, build the tools and systems that defend 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 through automation and well-designed tools. As our Security Engineer, Offensive Security, you will own internal offensive testing and lead the move from point-in-time penetration tests to continuous, AI-assisted testing. You will independently plan assessments, safely validate vulnerabilities, work with engineering teams through remediation and retesting, and build sustained knowledge of our source code and systems. You will contribute across application, cloud, and infrastructure security, support Accelerate and MX as priorities change, and share the team's on-call and incident-response work.
Responsibilities
- Independently plan and execute internal penetration tests across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems; prioritize assessments by risk and business impact.
- Define testing scope and rules of engagement with system owners, assess production risk, and choose safe methods for validating vulnerabilities.
- Combine hands-on testing with source-code review and architectural analysis to find vulnerabilities and demonstrate realistic attack paths.
- Partner with engineering teams to explain findings, agree on practical fixes, track remediation, and retest to confirm the risk is resolved.
- Maintain knowledge of Liftoff’s systems and attack surface, revisit high-risk attack paths as systems change, and turn confirmed findings into repeatable tests.
- Build testing tools and workflows that combine hands-on assessments with ongoing automated testing and remediation validation.
- Make security testing self-service where practical through reusable tests, documented assessment and retesting workflows, and clear remediation guidance.
- Support the annual third-party penetration test for independent validation and customer and audit requirements; coordinate scope and follow findings through remediation.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted offensive security tooling: evaluate platforms and build workflows for code analysis, test generation, and finding triage; measure coverage, accuracy, and effort saved.
- Partner with Detection & Response to turn validated attack paths and offensive findings into detection improvements and incident-response exercises.
- Work across application, cloud, and infrastructure security as priorities change, including Accelerate and MX, and share the team’s on-call and incident-response rotation, including occasional off-hours response and post-incident follow-up.
Minimum qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant security engineering experience, including substantial hands-on penetration testing of applications and infrastructure.
- Excellent judgment in prioritizing testing by risk, assessing production impact, and safely validating exploits without unnecessary disruption.
- Experience independently owning assessments and partnering with engineering teams from initial findings through remediation and retesting.
- Write production-quality code for security tools and automation, review pull requests, and navigate large, unfamiliar codebases. Develop safe proof-of-concept code and independently validate AI-generated code and findings.
- Strong understanding of application and API security, authentication and authorization, network security, and common vulnerability classes.
- Hands-on experience assessing cloud and infrastructure security, including identity and access controls, configuration, and attack paths.
- Ability to quickly understand complex systems and architecture and contribute across application, cloud, and infrastructure security.
- Practical software engineering habits: testing, observability, version control, peer code review, continuous integration, and blameless postmortems.
- Strong technical writing: clear assessment plans, proposals, reproducible findings, runbooks, and post-incident reviews that support engineering decisions. Explain exploitability and business impact clearly in writing and conversation.
- Willingness to share the security team’s on-call and incident-response responsibilities, including occasional off-hours response.
Desirable qualifications
- Experience with Go, Python, Clojure, or JavaScript; ability to work across languages matters more than a specific language.
- Experience building AI-assisted security testing workflows and measuring the accuracy and usefulness of their results.
- Experience securing large-scale cloud systems, mobile advertising, or other high-volume SaaS environments.
Why This Role is Exciting
- Ownership & Impact: Build and own our in-house offensive security capability, from selecting assessments to confirming fixes.
- Broad Attack Surface: Test applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems with access to source code and engineering context.
- Engineering Partnership: Work with teams that value security and stay involved through remediation and retesting.
- Room to Grow: Move from point-in-time penetration tests to continuous testing and lead adoption of AI-assisted offensive security tools.
Hands-On Technical Work: Investigate complex systems, validate vulnerabilities safely, and build tools that make testing more effective.
Compensation:
The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
- SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $200,000 - $250,000 plus bonus
- All other cities and towns in our approved states: $184,000 - $220,000 plus bonus
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Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We’re shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem—join us and help accelerate what’s next.
Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.
Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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.
Listing provenance
Where did this job come from?
See where this vacancy came from and whether more than one current source can still support it. Source names help with traceability and attribution; they are not endorsements or guarantees.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
- Continuity
- One recent renewable source
- Source-class independence
- One renewable source class
- Last source observation
- Observed very recently
This records when High Paid Job last observed the vacancy in source evidence. It confirms source presence, not that the employer edited the vacancy at that time.
- 1 enabled source recently observed this vacancy.
Source confidence is about traceability and continuity. It is separate from application safety and should not be read as an employer reputation rating.
The vacancy is supplied by an external job publisher. Source information helps show where the listing came from; it is not a guarantee about the employer or vacancy.
Listing source: Jobicy. Destination: jobicy.com. The application opens in a new tab so you can keep this report open.