Senior Software Security Engineer

About the role

The Security Engineering team at Anthropic protects our AI systems and maintains the trust of our users and society. The team focuses on identity and secrets management, developer security, infrastructure security, and secure frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain identity and secrets management systems, including credential issuance, rotation, and workload authentication across multi-cloud environments
• Contribute to cluster security controls including RBAC policies, namespace isolation, workload identity, and pod security
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls including IAM, network segmentation, VPC architecture, and encryption across multi-cloud and on-prem environments
• Design and implement secure development frameworks and libraries that make secure coding the path of least resistance for our engineering teams, including service-to-service authentication, serialization libraries, and tool proxies
• Harden CI/CD pipelines against supply chain attacks through isolated build environments, signed attestations, dependency verification, and automated policy enforcement
• Identify and remediate security gaps through code review, threat modeling, and hands-on debugging
• Contribute to continuous cloud security posture management using infrastructure-as-code scanning, misconfiguration detection, and automated remediation

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience implementing and maintaining security-relevant systems in production
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Strong programming skills in Python or at least one systems language such as Go or Rust
• Experience contributing to cloud security controls
• A track record of taking ownership of problems end to end, from identifying the issue to shipping and monitoring the fix
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams
• Low ego and high empathy, with a genuine interest in helping teammates succeed
• Passion for AI safety and the role security engineering plays in building trustworthy AI systems

Qualifications

• Contributions to developer security tooling including SAST, dependency scanning, or secure build infrastructure
• Familiarity with Kubernetes security primitives including RBAC, namespaces, network policies, and admission controllers
• Experience with cloud security posture management tooling, infrastructure-as-code security scanning, or automated remediation
• Experience with network security and isolation techniques including east-west controls, traffic inspection, and cloud network policy
• Experience with eBPF for security monitoring and enforcement, or developing kernel security policies
• Experience building or operating secrets management or workload authentication systems, including familiarity with protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, or SPIFFE/SPIRE

Skills

• Knowledge of security best practices and standards
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Understanding of security architectures and design patterns
• Ability to write secure code and contribute to secure development practices
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of security tools and frameworks (OWASP, CIS Benchmarks)

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Pay

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000—$405,000 USD.

Schedule

We currently operate a location-based hybrid policy, where staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• A lovely office space for collaboration

Legal Information

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Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.