Senior Product Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

LanceDB is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to join our team. This is our first product security-focused engineer role, responsible for driving new security-related functionality and ensuring our platform follows security-related best practices.

🏢 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.

🎯 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

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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

🎁 Benefits

LanceDB is committed to equitable and competitive compensation. Actual compensation is determined based on factors such as skills, experience, location, and the interview process.
In addition to base salary, new hires receive compelling equity grants and access to a comprehensive benefits package including:
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
Commuter benefits
Generous paid time off
Paid parental leave program for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

United States | Canada