Posted 3 months ago
Senior Product Security Engineer
@ LanceDB
Canada
Overview
LanceDB is hiring a Senior Product Security Engineer, its first product security-focused engineer, to take high-level direction and drive security improvements across the AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform. The role is a full-time, hands-on appsec and devsecops position with day-to-day coding responsibilities, not infosec or platform security.
Responsibilities:
- Build key rotation, user-managed API credentials and RBAC
- Select, deploy and tune security tooling across repos and environments
- Apply industry best practices and specific vulnerabilities to the product
- Partner with engineers to continuously enhance security posture
Requirements summary:
- 8+ years as a software engineer, significant appsec work
- Large-scale data platform experience, including concurrency and multitenancy
- Coding in Rust and/or C++
- Primary engineer on encryption, authentication or authorization features in shipped products
- Experience at an early-stage startup
- Open source community experience
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-20
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-20
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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LanceDB
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Developer-friendly, open source database for multi-modal AI
Full company description
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for multimodal AI. From hyper scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large scale AI datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI application.
- LinkedIn followers
- 11,585
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 49
- Reported office locations
- San Francisco, California, US
- Business categories
- Information Services
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Other recorded names
- LanceDB
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 41,000,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for multimodal AI. From hyper scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large scale AI datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI application.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information Services |
| Company size | 11-50 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2022 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 6 |
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About LanceDB
AI advances at the speed of its research, and research moves at the speed of its data. LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next training run starts as fast as the next idea. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB, from frontier and world models to robots and autonomous vehicles.
About the 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
What You’ll Do
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
What We’re Looking For
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. Helping other developers build this functionality does not qualify for this criterion - you should have been the primary engineer working on these features.
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.
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