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Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labonsitestaff$405k–$485k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own identity platform powering every login, API key and access decision.
  • Design credentials for agents and long-running autonomous workloads.
  • Drive global distribution and failover for mission-critical services.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

Platform-minded backend leader who cares deeply about reliability and security and loves 0-to-1 ambiguous problems. You build easy-to-adopt primitives and set technical direction across teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building and operating backend or platform systems at scale
  • Experience with identity, authentication, authorization or security infrastructure
  • Design for reliability, failure modes, revocation and on-call
  • Own large migrations in live, high-traffic systems
  • Product-focused platform work with documentation and self-service
  • Navigate ambiguity and communicate with cross-functional partners
  • Familiar with using AI tools in development workflow
remote policy
Hybrid - at least 25% time in office
visa sponsorship
We sponsor visas but unable to sponsor every role and candidate
hiring process
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis with no deadline

Lab profile

About Anthropic

AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.

What they build

  • Claude
  • Claude API
  • Claude Code

Known for

  • AI safety and alignment
  • Model interpretability research
  • Frontier LLM development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2021
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Backed by Amazon and Google
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