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Senior Software Security Engineer

Anthropic· Security
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $405kfull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior software security engineer role at Anthropic focusing on protecting AI systems, building and maintaining identity, secrets management, cloud security controls, secure development frameworks, and CI/CD hardening across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

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 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Identity and secrets managementCluster security controlsCloud security controlsSecure development frameworksCI/CD hardeningThreat modeling

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space to collaborate
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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