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Senior Product Security Engineer

LanceDB· Engineering
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United States | Canada$180k - $250kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior product security-focused engineer responsible for driving security improvements across LanceDB’s platform, partnering with engineers to implement best practices, and owning high-impact security features for a data-centric, AI-native lakehouse.

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

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

Skills

Required:Security engineeringRust or C++ programmingEncryption / authentication / authorization featuresAppSec / DevSecOpsSecurity toolingCommunicationData-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
  • Commuter benefits
  • Generous paid time off
  • Paid parental leave program for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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