Lambda

Security Engineer – Architecture

Lambda

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $296,000 - $445,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxPython

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.
  • 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.
  • Work on creating security architecture patterns, conducting threat models and security reviews, establishing security requirements for engineering teams, and developing customer-facing security documentation.
  • Pioneer AI-Powered Architecture leveraging Lambda's hosted LLMs to build next-generation security capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers and drive architectural standards and communicate security architecture value to stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Have 3+ years of security engineering or security architecture experience and 5+ years of total engineering experience
  • Thrive in high-speed, high-ambiguity startup environments
  • Deep technical expertise in security architecture patterns, threat modeling methodologies, and security design principles
  • Excel at solving problems through design and prototyping in Python, Go, or similar languages
  • Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional technical teams both with and without authority
  • Strong Linux systems experience in both bare metal and cloud environments
  • Demonstrated experience driving security improvements that were enthusiastically adopted by engineering teams
  • Excellence at translating security architecture decisions into business risk