Security Engineer - Architecture

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

• Note : This position requires presence in our San Francisco or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

About the Role

Lambda Security protects some of the world's most valuable digital assets : invaluable training data, model weights representing immense computational investments, and the sensitive inputs required to leverage best of breed AI models. We're responsible for securing every byte that powers breakthrough artificial intelligence.

As a Security Engineer on our Architecture team, you'll be the technical foundation of our security design decisions, creating security architecture patterns and standards that directly protect customer data and enable Lambda to be the safest place to build with AI.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Security and collaborating closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and embedded Technical Program Managers, you'll drive security architecture improvements across our AI-focused infrastructure. Your work will span security design reviews, threat modeling, architecture patterns, and security requirements that scale with our rapid growth while maintaining the highest security standards.

You will work on creating security architecture patterns, conducting threat models and security reviews, establishing security requirements for engineering teams, and developing customer-facing security documentation. You'll have unique access to LLMs hosted on our own infrastructure to pioneer AI-powered security architecture solutions that wouldn't be possible anywhere else.

If you thrive on solving complex security design challenges in cutting-edge AI infrastructure and want to build security architectures that scale from hundreds to thousands of systems, we'd love to talk.

We value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skills, and we are excited to hear from candidates who can bring unique perspectives to our team. If you do not exactly meet this description but believe you may be a good fit, please still apply and help us understand your readiness for this role. Your application is not a waste of our time.

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Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

A Final Note :

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.