Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 3H AGO
Frontier labonsitestaff$405k–$485k
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