Senior Product Security Engineer

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. Helping other developers build this functionality does not qualify for this criterion - you should have been the primary engineer working on these features.

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.