Senior Product Security Engineer
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At a glance
Job overview
LanceDB is hiring a Senior Product Security Engineer. LanceDB seeks its first product security‑focused engineer to drive security‑related functionality, select and tune tooling, and apply industry trends and best practices, partnering with engineers to continuously improve the platform’s security posture.
Key focus areas include Drive new security‑related functionality such as key rotation, user‑managed API credentials, and RBAC, Select, deploy, and tune security tooling across all repos and environments for full coverage, and Apply relevant industry trends, best practices, and specific vulnerabilities to the product.
Successful candidates bring 8+ Years As A Software Engineer, Significant Appsec-Related Work, and Experience Working On Large-Scale Data Platforms. Important skills include Key Rotation, User-Managed API Credentials, RBAC, Security Tooling Deployment, Security Tooling Tuning, and Industry Trends Application.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Role
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Our first product security-focused engineer
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Takes high-level direction (e.g., "identify top five security-related gaps for AX") and drives to results
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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
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Drive new security-related functionality such as key rotation, user-managed API credentials, RBAC, and the like
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Select, deploy and tune security tooling across all relevant repos and environments, ensuring full coverage
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Apply relevant industry trends, best practices, and specific vulnerabilities to our product
Qualifications
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8+ years as a software engineer, with a significant portion of that time working on appsec-related work
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Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems), including work on concurrency and multitenancy
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Demonstrated ability to code in Rust and/or C++
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Experience building encryption, authentication, and/or authorization features for shipping products at high throughput
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Previous experience working at an early-stage startup
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Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
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Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)
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Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
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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.
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