Senior Product Security Engineer

The role

This person will be the first product security-focused engineer. They will drive new security functionality and deploy security tooling across repos and environments.

What you will do

• Drive new security-related functionality such as key rotation, user-managed API credentials, and RBAC
• Select, deploy and tune security tooling across all relevant repos and environments
• Apply relevant industry trends, best practices, and specific vulnerabilities to the 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
• Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
• Experience contributing to or working with open source communities

About the company

LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB.