Staff+ Software Security Engineer
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 3H AGO
Frontier labonsitestaff$405k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design authentication architecture for training infrastructure and model weights.
- Harden CI/CD pipelines with isolated builds and signed attestations.
- Build crypto, mTLS and auth frameworks that eliminate entire bug classes.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
Seasoned security leader who brings clarity to ambiguous problems, grows engineers with low ego and empathy, and is passionate about building safe, trustworthy AI systems.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience with deep security expertise
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- Strong programming skills in Python or Go, Rust, or C/C++
- Deep understanding of identity systems, cryptographic primitives and secrets management
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes security primitives including RBAC and namespaces
- Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives
- Outstanding communication skills across all organizational levels
- Passion for AI safety and trustworthy AI systems
- remote policy
- Hybrid: in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available; reasonable effort made if offer extended
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