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Senior Product Security Engineer

LanceDB · United States | Canada · On-site

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About LanceDB

The multimodal lakehouse for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering so teams can build better models faster. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.

About the role

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

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years as a software engineer, with a significant portion of that time working on appsec-related work
  • Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems), including work on concurrency and multitenancy
  • Demonstrated ability to code in Rust and/or C++
  • Experience building encryption, authentication, and/or authorization features for shipping products at high throughput
  • Previous experience working at an early-stage startup
  • Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
More about this role

AI advances at the speed of its research, and research moves at the speed of its data. LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next training run starts as fast as the next idea. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB, from frontier and world models to robots and autonomous vehicles.

Our first product 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

Drive new security-related functionality such as key rotation, user-managed API credentials, RBAC, and the like

Select, deploy and tune security tooling across all relevant repos and environments, ensuring full coverage

Apply relevant industry trends, best practices, and specific vulnerabilities to our product

8+ years as a software engineer, with a significant portion of...

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