Role
Our first security-focused engineer
Takes high-level direction (e.g., "identify top five security-related gaps for AX") and drives to results
Success looks like a LanceDB platform that follows security-related best practices, and an ongoing partnership with other engineers to continuously enhance our security posture in all areas of the product
Day-to-day
Select, deploy and tune security tooling across all relevant repos and environments, ensuring full coverage
Identify and remediate security-related risks, including but not limited to cloud IAM, access controls, product vulnerabilities
Own vulnerability management, from running our CVE program through closely working with other engineers on specific remediations
Support periodic evidence collection and control testing for compliance commitments
Apply relevant industry trends, best practices, and specific vulnerabilities to our product
Qualifications
8+ years as a software engineer
Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems), including work on concurrency and multitenancy
Experience building encryption, authentication, authorization features for shipping products at high throughput
Experience with CSP stacks, including object storage security, disk/volume encryption, key rotation, etc.
Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)
Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
Experience contributing to or working with open source communities
Please apply for this role only if you meet all of the above qualifications, and agree with the day-to-day responsibilities.
About LanceDB
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data platform for multimodal AI. From hyper-scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large-scale datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI workloads.
Based on 1,714 disclosed Security salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $142K/year, with most offers between $114K and $180K (10th–90th percentile: $95K–$216K).
This posting lists $180K–$250K, above the $142K market median.
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