Application Security Engineer, Generative AI

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About the role

  • Application Security Engineer securing GenAI products and emerging businesses. Building security tools, reviewing code, and improving application, cloud, and infrastructure security at Liftoff’s mobile marketing platform.

Responsibilities

  • Establish secure software development standards and integrate security into engineering design and development
  • Create self-service security workflows, reusable tools, and secure design patterns
  • Perform design and code reviews, threat modeling, and security assessments for GenAI, Creative GenAI, and emerging businesses
  • Design and assess sandbox isolation
  • Partner with stakeholders to build a security-minded engineering culture
  • Triage security issues, prioritize vulnerabilities by risk, and coordinate remediation and verification
  • Assess vendors and AI tools for security controls and secure employee use
  • Participate in the security team's on-call and incident-response rotation
  • Conduct blameless post-incident reviews, document findings, and track remediation
  • Build maintainable security tools and automation, including an AI-assisted code-security triage pilot
  • Partner with Detection & Response on detection improvements and response guidance
  • Contribute across application, cloud, and infrastructure security, including Accelerate and MX

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in security engineering or software engineering
  • Excellent judgment in prioritizing security efforts using a risk-based approach
  • Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver security improvements
  • Ability to write production-quality code for security tools and automation
  • Ability to review pull requests and navigate large, unfamiliar codebases
  • Strong understanding of secure software design, application and API security, authentication and authorization, threat modeling, and code review
  • Experience assessing cloud and infrastructure security
  • Ability to quickly understand complex engineering systems and architecture
  • Experience with testing, observability, version control, peer code review, continuous integration, and blameless postmortems
  • Strong technical writing skills for design documents, proposals, runbooks, and post-incident reviews
  • Willingness to participate in on-call and incident-response responsibilities, including occasional off-hours response
  • Experience with Go, Python, Clojure, or JavaScript is desirable
  • Experience securing GenAI applications, designing sandboxes, or evaluating AI-assisted security tools is desirable
  • Experience scaling cloud security or working with high-velocity software engineering teams, mobile advertising, or high-volume SaaS environments is desirable

Benefits

  • Full-time remote work in an approved U.S. state or Canada
  • Opportunities for in-person project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events
  • Competitive salaries, equity, and benefits
  • Medical coverage
  • Wellness stipends
  • Additional perks based on country of residence
  • Quarterly in-person team gatherings

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$184,000 - $220,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

ClojureCloudJavaScriptPythonGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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