1 day ago
Base Salary
$266k - $395k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain detection rules, signatures, behavioral analytics, and threat-hunting capabilities across cloud, bare-metal, and internal infrastructure.
- Develop detection logic, security playbooks, response automation, and orchestration pipelines as code.
- Lead technical incident response investigations, forensic analysis, root-cause identification, containment, and remediation.
- Build AI-powered detection and investigation workflows using Lambda’s internal LLM infrastructure.
- Partner with Platform and Infrastructure engineering teams to harden systems and improve security instrumentation and telemetry coverage.
- Participate in an engineering on-call rotation supporting 24/7 operational readiness and rapid incident containment.
- Conduct post-incident reviews and mentor junior and mid-level security engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience specializing in detection engineering, threat hunting, or digital forensics and incident response.
- Strong programming or scripting proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or Bash, with experience building automated security tools and pipelines.
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure security, Linux system internals, container runtime security, and network telemetry, including AWS or GCP environments.
- Experience writing and managing detections using SIEM, YARA, Sigma, Falco, or EDR queries.
- Hands-on experience conducting forensic investigations and triaging complex, multi-stage attacks across cloud environments.
- Strong technical communication skills for documenting vulnerabilities, incident post-mortems, and architectural designs.
- Preferred experience includes building detection and response programs at AI/ML companies, using AI/ML for security automation, scaling security during hypergrowth, and working with eBPF, kernel-level telemetry, or bare-metal host security tools.
- Preferred experience also includes security tooling build-versus-buy decisions and supporting compliance audits such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, or FedRAMP.
Benefits
- The role requires working from Lambda’s Bellevue, San Francisco, or San Jose office four days per week, with Tuesday designated as the work-from-home day.
- Lambda offers cash and equity compensation, health, dental, and vision coverage, wellness and commuter stipends for select roles, a 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for USA employees, and flexible paid time off.
About Lambda
Lambda provides GPU cloud computing and on-prem AI hardware—servers, clusters, and workstations—for teams training and serving large ML models. Its products include NVIDIA H100/A100 instances, managed clusters, and the Lambda Stack software, sold via usage-based cloud pricing and hardware sales. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company serves researchers, startups, enterprises, and hyperscalers.