Lambda
Staff Security Architect
Bellevue Office · Staff+
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About the role
- We're responsible for securing every byte that powers breakthrough artificial intelligence.
- Reporting to the CISO, you'll be a principal technical leader responsible for shaping Lambda's overall security architecture, with a primary focus on Data Protection and Platform Security.
- Your work will define secure-by-default foundational patterns across our core AI infrastructure, hardware/GPU platform layers, multi-cloud control planes, and end-to-end data lifecycles.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and standardize end-to-end data protection strategy, encompassing data classification, cryptographic key management (KMS/HSM), data loss prevention (DLP), and privacy-preserving controls across customer data and AI model weights
- Drive confidential computing architectures, envelope encryption, and hardware-backed data security guarantees for high-consequence customer workloads
- Design and enforce core platform security architectures across multi-tenant GPU infrastructure, bare-metal clusters, hypervisors, and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
- Assess third-party vendor risks and build automated tooling to evaluate SaaS vendor security postures
- Partner closely with Platform, Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure leaders to embed security architecture into long-term product roadmaps
- Mentor senior engineering talent across the organization on secure design principles, platform security patterns, and threat modeling
- Strong technical skills in prototyping security designs and reference code in Python, Go, or similar languages
- Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
Requirements
- 10+ years of total engineering experience with 5+ years specializing in security architecture, platform security, or data protection at cloud/infrastructure scale
- Demonstrated experience with threat modeling methodologies (STRIDE, PASTA, etc.) and security design reviews for high-consequence systems
- Thrives in fast-moving, high-growth startup environments where building scalable structure is required
- invaluable training data, model weights representing immense computational investments, and the sensitive inputs required to leverage best of breed AI models.
Nice to have
- Excitement about leveraging our direct access to state-of-the-art LLMs to revolutionize enterprise security-imagine AI-assisted access reviews, automated SaaS risk assessments, and intelligent policy generation.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA) and audit preparation
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for managing enterprise identity and SaaS configurations
- Deep technical background allowing hands-on contribution when needed
- Experience with both build and buy decisions for security tooling
- Experience driving or providing significant evidence for compliance audits, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, or FedRAMP.
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Skills
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- One person, one GPU.
Compensation
- 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.
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Benefits
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Company info
- 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.
- We value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skills, and we are excited to hear from candidates who can bring unique perspectives to our team.
Equal opportunity
- 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.
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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