Manager - Security Platform

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.

* 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.

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.

• 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…