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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.\nIf you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.\n*Note: This position requires presence in our Bellevue, San Francisco, or San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.\nAbout the Role\nLambda 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.\nReporting 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.\nYou will directly impact the security posture of our high-performance computing environment by architecting robust data loss prevention (DLP), encryption at rest and in transit, key management (KMS/HSM), confidential computing, and tenant isolation models. Leveraging Lambda's hosted LLMs, you'll pioneer AI-driven security architecture capabilities-such as automated threat modeling, sensitive data discovery, and platform policy verification.\nIf you're excited about setting the architectural vision for data protection and platform security in the world's most demanding AI infrastructure, we want to talk.\nWe 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 a Staff Security Architect role. Your application is not a waste of our time.\nWhat You’ll Do\nData Protection Architecture:\nArchitect, 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\n\nDefine data lifecycle security controls for training datasets, checkpoint storage, and model artifacts across cloud and on-premises storage layers\n\nDrive confidential computing architectures, envelope encryption, and hardware-backed data security guarantees for high-consequence customer workloads\n\nEstablish robust zero-trust data access policies and fine-grained authorization frameworks for sensitive platform APIs and data repositories\n\nPlatform Security & Infrastructure Hardening:\nDesign and enforce core platform security architectures across multi-tenant GPU infrastructure, bare-metal clusters, hypervisors, and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)\n\nDefine strong tenant isolation, sandboxing, and secure virtualization controls to protect against cross-tenant side-channel and platform escape vulnerabilities\n\nConduct comprehensive threat models, architectural reviews, and risk assessments for core platform services and platform control planes\n\nAutomation & Strategic Innovation:\nPrototype reference implementations and security controls in Python or Go to demonstrate secure platform integration patterns\n\nPioneer AI-powered architectural security capabilities leveraging Lambda's hosted LLMs for automated threat modeling, automated policy validation, and data discovery\n\nAssess third-party vendor risks and build automated tooling to evaluate SaaS vendor security postures\n\nStrategic Leadership & Alignment:\nPartner closely with Platform, Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure leaders to embed security architecture into long-term product roadmaps\n\nAuthor technical whitepapers, architectural blueprints, and customer-facing trust documentation highlighting Lambda's platform security and data protection posture\n\nMentor senior engineering talent across the organization on secure design principles, platform security patterns, and threat modeling\n\nWhat We Think a Candidate Needs to Demonstrate to Succeed\n10+ years of total engineering experience with 5+ years specializing in security architecture, platform security, or data protection at cloud/infrastructure scale\n\nDeep expertise in data security concepts including encryption key management (KMS/HSM), cryptographic protocols, DLP, and confidential computing primitives\n\nProven track record of designing multi-tenant platform security architecture across heterogeneous infrastructure (bare-metal GPU clusters, hypervisors, KVM, Kubernetes, and public cloud)\n\nStrong technical skills in prototyping security designs and reference code in Python, Go, or similar languages\n\nDemonstrated experience with threat modeling methodologies (STRIDE, PASTA, etc.) and security design reviews for high-consequence systems\n\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of partnering effectively with IT, Legal, and HR\n\nAbility to balance robust enterprise security controls with employee experience and productivity\n\nThrives in fast-moving, high-growth startup environments where building scalable structure is required\n\nNice to Have\nExcitement 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.\n\nExperience building enterprise security and IAM programs at high-growth tech companies or cloud providers\n\nFamiliarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA) and audit preparation\n\nExperience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for managing enterprise identity and SaaS configurations\n\nDeep technical background allowing hands-on contribution when needed\n\nExperience with both build and buy decisions for security tooling\n\nExperience driving or providing significant evidence for compliance audits, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, or FedRAMP.\n\nSalary Range Information\nThe 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.\nAbout Lambda\nFounded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast\n\nOur 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\n\nWe have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG\n\nOur values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers\n\nWe offer generous cash & equity compensation\n\nHealth, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents\n\nWellness and commuter stipends for select roles\n\n401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)\n\nFlexible paid time off plan that we all actually use\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nLambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. 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