Senior Security Engineer

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.