Senior Security Engineer

LanceDB
LanceDB

Software Engineering

Posted on Jun 26, 2026

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.