Manager of Security Platform, Lambda

• 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
• 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
• 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

Desirable

• Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, builds Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference. Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give every person access to artificial intelligence. One person, one GPU
• If you'd like to build the world's best deep learning cloud, join us
• 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
• 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