Senior Security Engineer

LanceDB • San Francisco, CA

7d • $180,000 - $250,000

About The Position

This is the first security-focused engineer role at the company. The successful candidate will take high-level direction and drive it to completion, ensuring the LanceDB platform adheres to security best practices and fostering a continuous improvement in security posture through collaboration with other engineers.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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 the 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed