Lead Platform Security Engineer for AI Data

LanceDB Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LanceDB is seeking an experienced security-focused engineer to own and advance the product security posture. You will drive key security features, tooling, and best practices across the platform, collaborating with engineers across teams to ship secure, high-throughput data systems.

The role requires deep expertise in app security, data platforms, and systems programming (Rust/C++), with a track record of ownership in ambiguous startup environments and a strong emphasis on measurable security

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a software engineer with focus on application security.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms, concurrency and multitenancy.
• Proficient in Rust and/or C++ for security features.
• Experience at an early-stage startup and owning ambiguous projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication; data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Drive security-related functionality like key rotation and RBAC.
• Deploy and tune security tooling across repos and environments.
• Apply industry trends and vulnerabilities to the product.

Skills

AppSec experience

Large-scale data platforms

Rust/C++ coding

Open source contributions

Ownership of projects

Strong communication

Data-driven decisions

Multitenancy

Concurrency

Job description

About LanceDB

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.

About the Role

• 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

What You’ll Do

• 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

What We’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

• 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. Of particular note: qualified candidates for this role will have day-to-day coding responsibilities - this is an appsec and devsecops role, not an infosec or platform security role.