Lambda · 2 months ago
Manager - Security Platform
San Francisco Office
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$297K/yr - $495K/yr
5+ years expLambda is a company that builds Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference, with a mission to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity. They are seeking a Manager for the Security Platform team to lead and build a high-performing team of software engineers dedicated to creating foundational security tools and automation that enable Lambda to maintain security at scale.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingData CenterGPUMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of 3-4 deeply security-aware software engineers dedicated to building and operating production-grade security platforms
Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning where engineers thrive through clear expectations, regular feedback, and opportunities for growth
Enable technical excellence through architectural and technical oversight, reviewing designs, assessing risk, and ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, and scalable
Coach engineers in product thinking and platform ownership, helping them evolve from delivering features to managing services with measurable impact
Establish your team as the go-to platform builders, delivering solutions that meet any business need
Own the Security Platform roadmap, aligning it with Lambda's overall security and business objectives
Balance immediate security team needs against a strategic platform vision that yields compounding value
Proactively gather and meet customer needs that result in tools and platforms that are adopted voluntarily because they make secure development faster and easier
Operate as both technical and product leader, translating complex requirements into deliverable, incremental milestones that provide real impact early and often
Establish Lambda's security data foundations: log pipelines, telemetry frameworks, and data services that empower decision-making across security functions
Build self-service security capabilities for engineering teams—authentication frameworks, secrets management systems, policy enforcement tooling, and security APIs that make the secure path the easy path
Direct the development of compliance automation that streamlines evidence collection, attestation, and reporting
Partner with the peer security teams to deliver operational tooling, incident response automation, and analysis systems that scale without toil
Ensure your team's platforms are reliable, monitored, and continuously improved based on real-world adoption and performance
Partner across the Security organization to deliver cohesive platform capabilities that enhance threat detection, prevention, and operational efficiency
Collaborate with engineering leadership to embed security into Lambda's development lifecycle, eliminating bottlenecks through self-service design and automation
Work effectively in a fast-moving startup environment where priorities shift, resources are constrained, and perfect solutions aren't possible. Make pragmatic trade-offs that deliver business value while building for the future
Communicate impact clearly to stakeholders who may not immediately see the connection between infrastructure work and business outcomes
Define measurable success criteria and maintain a 6–12 month roadmap that advances Lambda's security posture
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams OR 5+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering management
Proven ability to build, lead, and scale technical teams that deliver complex, high-impact platforms
Strong architectural intuition and product management sensibility; you can set vision, make tradeoffs, and deliver tools engineers love to use
Experience building security platforms, including understanding what makes them succeed or fail
Understanding of securing complex infrastructure environments, ideally including bare metal and cloud platforms, both as a consumer and a provider
Experience building automation-first systems that improve both velocity and security outcomes
Skilled communicator who can translate technical risk into business impact and build alignment across diverse stakeholders
Ability to thrive in a high-speed, high-ambiguity environment where you balance building for today while preparing for tomorrow's needs
Preferred
Experience building security platforms like SIEM/SOAR systems, security orchestration tools, compliance automation, or security data infrastructure
Deep familiarity with security platforms (e.g. Splunk/Elastic/Chronicle), secure-by-default infrastructure-as-code libraries (e.g. Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD systems, or secrets management (e.g. Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
Experience building data pipelines, analytics platforms, or data lakes for security use cases
Deep familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks
Background in platform engineering, SRE, or building internal developer platforms
Experience enabling deep adoption of zero-trust architecture principles or building identity-centric security platforms
Excitement about leveraging Lambda's access to state-of-the-art LLMs for AI-powered security automation, orchestration, and analytics
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we all actually use
Company
Lambda
Lambda is a cloud-based platform that provides high-performance GPU hardware and cloud infrastructure for AI model training and inference.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.19BKey Investors
TWG GlobalJP MorganMacquarie Group
2025-11-18Series E· $1.5B
2025-08-19Debt Financing· $275M
2025-02-19Series D· $480M
Leadership Team
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder, CEO
Michael Balaban
Co-Founder / CTO
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