Manager, Security Platform

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/San Jose 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 Manager of the Security Platform team, you'll build and lead a team of deeply security-aware software engineers who create the foundational tools and automation that enable Lambda to maintain security at scale without sacrificing velocity.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Security, you'll lead 3-4 engineers building platforms that serve three critical constituencies: Detection & Response needs operational tooling, Security Architecture needs automated enforcement of standards, and engineering teams need self-service capabilities that eliminate bottlenecks.

You'll have direct access to deploy and run state-of-the-art LLMs on Lambda's infrastructure—a unique advantage enabling you to build intelligent security platforms that learn, adapt, and protect at a scale only possible when you own the AI infrastructure.

Your success is measured in the problems other teams avoid because your platforms provide high-quality foundations.

Your immediate focus will be on building your team, maturing our existing toolset, collecting requirements, and building a 6-12 month roadmap that aligns with the 2026 security strategic plan.

We're looking for engineering managers who pair deep technical intuition with product sensibility and team-building excellence. If you're energized by multiplying security impact through excellent tooling, treating internal teams as customers, and building platforms where the secure path is the easy path, 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.

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Development

• 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.

Security Platform Product Management

• 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.

Platform & Technical Leadership

• 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.

Organizational & Strategic Contributions

• 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.

What We Think a Candidate Needs to Demonstrate to Succeed

• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

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

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

• 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

• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation

• 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

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.