Lambda
Security Engineer
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) (Remote)$266k–$395kfulltimemidAdded 2 days ago
About this role
Lambda seeks a Security Engineer to protect AI cloud infrastructure serving researchers and enterprises. You'll develop threat detections, respond to incidents, harden systems, and build security automation across a fast-moving startup environment.
What you'll do
- Build and tune detection rules in SIEM and EDR systems to identify threats targeting customer data and model weights
- Participate in on-call incident response and lead investigations to prevent future attacks
- Remediate vulnerabilities and security findings in production systems
- Review architecture designs and code changes to provide actionable security feedback
- Develop Python or Go automation tools for evidence collection and vulnerability triage
- Partner with engineering teams across product, data center operations, and IT to implement security improvements
What they're looking for
- Security engineering (5+ years)
- Threat detection and SIEM/EDR tools
- Incident response and investigation
- Linux systems administration
- Python or Go programming
- Cloud infrastructure security
- Vulnerability management
- Security architecture review
Benefits
- Access to Lambda's hosted LLMs for security operations work
- 4 days/week in-office (San Francisco/San Jose/Belmont area) with one remote day
- Opportunity to shape security for AI infrastructure protecting billion-dollar training jobs
- Cross-functional partnerships with product and infrastructure teams
- Work on strategic long-term initiatives alongside tactical security improvements
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