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# Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Detection and Response at Lovable

- **Company:** Lovable
- **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable/e53bdf9e-39ee-46d4-aa95-6b3ba5d3de73

## Job description

TL;DR You'll build the detection and response capability that catches attackers before they matter - across Lovable's corporate, production, and AI-agent surfaces.

Why Lovable? Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. And we’re just getting started. We’re building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world. Lovable is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50, reflecting our momentum as one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next era of software.

## What we're looking for

- 8+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting, with at least 3 at staff/principal level.
- Strong engineering background - you build detections as code, not as saved searches in a SIEM.
- Deep experience with cloud telemetry (GCP/AWS/Cloudflare), endpoint EDR, identity logs, and modern SIEM/data-lake stacks (Panther, Elastic, Snowflake/Clickhouse).
- Battle-tested incident commander who has led real high-severity incidents from first alert to public post-mortem.
- Adversary-minded: comfortable with MITRE ATT&CK, threat intel, purple-teaming, and red team collaboration.
- Bonus: detection for LLM/agent abuse, prompt injection at scale, or insider risk in AI-augmented engineering orgs.

## What you'll do

- Build the detection engineering platform - pipelines, detections-as-code, automated triage, and response playbooks.
- Design and own security incident response process with 24/7 coverage, with a small, high-leverage human and agent team.
- Lead incidents end-to-end: detection, containment, eradication, post-mortem, and follow-through.
- Hunt proactively across corporate, production, and AI-agent surfaces - and turn every finding into a durable detection.
- Define what 'world-class D&R for an AI-native company' looks like, and build it.

Our tech stack

- Frontend: React and Typescript.
- Backend: Golang and Rust.
- Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, multiple LLM providers.
- DevOps & Tooling: GitHub Actions, Grafana, OTEL, infra-as-code (Terraform).
- Data: Clickhouse, Firestore, Spanner, BigQuery.

And we’re always exploring what’s next!

## About your application

Please submit your application in English. It’s our company language, so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join. We treat all candidates equally - if you’re interested, please apply through our careers portal.

## About Lovable

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lovable provides an AI-powered platform that enables users to build apps, websites, and digital products through natural language prompts, automating the software development process.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Anton Osika (CEO), Fabian Hedin (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, AI-Powered Development Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B, B2C, Enterprise, SMB, individual builders and developers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Democratizing software creation by allowing anyone to build apps and websites by simply describing what they want.

## Products & Services
- **Lovable Platform (AI App Builder)**: A no-code, AI-powered platform where users describe an app or website idea, drop in screenshots or docs, and the AI builds a working prototype in real-time. Users can then refine and deploy with simple feedback and one-click deployment. Type: SaaS / AI Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $553.5M USD (as of latest round). Annual Revenue estimated between $100M-$500M USD. Annual Recurring Revenue surged by more than 30% in a single month earlier in 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures (led Series B), Creandum (led Seed Round), byFounders, Hummingbird Ventures. Investors include 15 in Series B and 25 in Series A.
- **Growth Signals**: Explosive headcount growth of +646.1% year-over-year to 524 employees. Operates in 56 countries. Acquired Molnett. Active job postings at 115. Millions of projects built on the platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed of Development**: Allows users to go from idea to working prototype in minutes, dramatically faster than traditional coding.
- **Low Barrier to Entry**: Requires no deep coding skills, opening software creation to a massive audience of non-developers.
- **"Founder DNA" Culture**: The company actively hires for and rewards an ownership mindset, autonomy, and the ability to move fast—traits often found in founders. This creates a high-performance, low-ambiguity environment.
- **Transparent Decision-Making**: Uses a simple "IPS" (Issue and Proposed Solution) framework for decisions, made in writing and shared publicly across the company, enabling speed and clarity across time zones.

## Strategic Focus
- **Rapid Scaling**: Focused on growing the team to around 400 employees globally (from 146 in early March 2026), prioritizing engineering, product, and design.
- **Go-to-Market Expansion**: Building out sales, customer success, and marketing functions to support its rapid revenue growth.
- **Platform Development**: Continuing to enhance the AI app builder's capabilities, reliability, and enterprise features (as evidenced by a Product Manager (Enterprise) role).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of Ownership & Impact**: The company explicitly seeks "founder-types" who take ownership, ship meaningful work from day one, and are comfortable with autonomy and ambiguity.
- **High-Growth Environment**: Being part of a company that is scaling revenue and headcount at an explosive rate offers significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-First**: With offices in Stockholm, San Francisco, London, and Boston, and a remote-friendly policy, the team is distributed globally.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes unlimited AI access, meaningful equity, paid parental leave, wellness & health budget, and relocation support.
- **Engineering & Product Focus**: The culture emphasizes speed, results, and tight feedback loops over rigid process, which is attractive for builders who want to move fast.

## Sources
1. [lovable.dev](https://lovable.dev/)
2. [Lovable Careers Page](https://lovable.dev/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - Lovable](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovable-dev)
4. [Business Insider - Lovable Hiring Strategy](https://www.businessinsider.com/lovable-hiring-strategy-founder-dna-structure-vibe-coding-2026-3)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Lovable](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable)

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