Senior Product Security Engineer

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 Day-to-day 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 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 (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.