Manager - Security Platform at Lambda

San Francisco, California, United States

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$297,000 – $495,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud ComputingIndustries

Requirements

  • Deep technical intuition in security-aware software engineering
  • Strong product sensibility
  • Proven team-building excellence
  • Ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers
  • Experience fostering technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
  • Skills in architectural and technical oversight, design reviews, risk assessment, and ensuring robust, maintainable, scalable solutions
  • Ability to coach engineers in product thinking and platform ownership
  • Experience owning product roadmaps and aligning with business objectives
  • Capability to balance immediate needs with strategic vision
  • Proactive in gathering and meeting customer needs for voluntary tool adoption

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 through clear expectations, regular feedback, and growth opportunities
  • Provide architectural and technical oversight, review designs, assess risks, and ensure solutions are robust, maintainable, and scalable
  • Coach engineers in product thinking and platform ownership to evolve from feature delivery to service management with measurable impact
  • Establish the team as the go-to platform builders for Detection & Response, Security Architecture, and engineering teams
  • Own the Security Platform roadmap, aligning it with Lambda's security and business objectives
  • Balance immediate security team needs against a strategic platform vision for compounding value
  • Proactively gather and meet customer needs to create tools and platforms that are voluntarily adopted for faster, easier secure development
  • Operate as both technical and product leader, translating complex requirements into deliverables
  • Build the team, mature existing toolset, collect requirements, and build a 6-12 month roadmap aligned with the 2026 security strategic plan

Skills

Security Engineering
Platform Engineering
Software Engineering
LLM Deployment
Automation
Detection and Response
Security Architecture
Team Leadership

Lambda

Cloud-based GPU services for AI training

About Lambda

Lambda Labs provides cloud-based services for artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference, focusing on large language models and generative AI. Their main product, the AI Developer Cloud, utilizes NVIDIA's GH200 Grace Hopper™ Superchip to deliver efficient and cost-effective GPU resources. Customers can access on-demand and reserved cloud GPUs, which are essential for processing large datasets quickly, with pricing starting at $1.99 per hour for NVIDIA H100 instances. Lambda Labs serves AI developers and companies needing extensive GPU deployments, offering competitive pricing and infrastructure ownership options through their Lambda Echelon service. Additionally, they provide Lambda Stack, a software solution that simplifies the installation and management of AI-related tools for over 50,000 machine learning teams. The goal of Lambda Labs is to support AI development by providing accessible and efficient cloud GPU services.

San Jose, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2012Year Founded
$372.6MTotal Funding
DEBTCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
201-500Employees

Risks

Nebius' holistic cloud platform challenges Lambda's market share in AI infrastructure.
AWS's 896-core instance may draw customers seeking high-performance cloud solutions.
Existential crisis in Hermes 3 model raises concerns about Lambda's AI model reliability.

Differentiation

Lambda offers cost-effective Inference API for AI model deployment without infrastructure maintenance.
Nvidia HGX H100 and Quantum-2 InfiniBand Clusters enhance Lambda's AI model training capabilities.
Lambda's Hermes 3 collaboration showcases advanced AI model development expertise.

Upsides

Inference API launch attracts enterprises seeking low-cost AI deployment solutions.
Nvidia HGX H100 clusters provide competitive edge in high-performance AI computing.
Strong AI cloud service growth indicates rising demand for Lambda's GPU offerings.

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