Senior Product Security Engineer

Senior Product Security Engineer at lancedb in Americas or APAC timezones.

Role Summary

• 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

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

Requirements

• 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.

About LanceDB

LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data platform for multimodal AI. From hyper-scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large-scale datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI workloads.

About the Company

ABOUT LANCEDB

LanceDB is a high-performance, open-source, cloud-native data platform built for AI-native and multimodal workflows. From vector search at multi-billion-scale to real-time retrieval, feature engineering, and analytics across large-scale datasets, LanceDB powers cutting-edge applications of machine learning and data infrastructure.

We’re building the next generation of intelligent, data-driven systems — and we’re looking for an experienced, customer-focused engineer who can help our enterprise users deploy, operate, and scale LanceDB successfully.

You’ll join a world-class team of open-source builders working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure. You’ll collaborate on systems that power next-generation AI workloads while shaping how LanceDB operates and scales production environments.

Salary: $180K – $250K • Offers Equity