Lambda
Staff Security Architect
$314K–$465K
Bellevue Office +2 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue Office
San Jose Office (First St)
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) - Experience
- 10+ years of total engineering experience, including 5+ years specializing in security architecture, platform security, or data protection at cloud/infrastructure scale.
About the job
Shapes Lambda’s security architecture for data protection and platform security across its AI infrastructure, including GPU platforms, cloud control planes, and data lifecycles.
What you'll do
- Define data protection controls and architecture, including encryption, key management, DLP, and confidential computing.
- Design platform security for multi-tenant GPU infrastructure, including isolation, threat modeling, and infrastructure hardening.
- Prototype security controls and AI-enabled security capabilities, and advise engineering leaders on secure architecture.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of total engineering experience, including 5+ years specializing in security architecture, platform security, or data protection at cloud/infrastructure scale.
- Expertise in data security, including encryption key management (KMS/HSM), cryptographic protocols, DLP, and confidential computing.
- Experience designing multi-tenant platform security across heterogeneous infrastructure, including bare-metal GPU clusters, hypervisors, KVM, Kubernetes, and public cloud.
- Proficiency prototyping security designs and reference code in Python, Go, or similar languages; experience with threat modeling and security design reviews.
Nice to have
- Experience building enterprise security and IAM programs at high-growth tech companies or cloud providers.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and audit preparation, or experience implementing Terraform for enterprise identity and SaaS configurations.
Pay
$314K – $465K USD base salary
Tools
KMS/HSM, DLP, Kubernetes, KVM, Python, Go, Terraform
AI focus
Pioneer AI-powered security architecture using Lambda-hosted LLMs for automated threat modeling, policy validation, and sensitive data discovery.
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