Anthropic

Staff Software Security Engineer

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2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build security controls for large-scale AI clusters across cloud and bare-metal data center environments.
  • Design network security controls including default-deny ingress and egress, segmentation, private connectivity, firewall policies, and mTLS with service identity.
  • Deliver secure defaults for clusters, VPCs, and data center links using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.
  • Build network traffic visibility, exfiltration detection, boundary-drift detection, and safe automated remediation.
  • Design secure development workflows and CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes security, container orchestration, and identity management.
  • Threat-model and assess risk for complex multi-cloud and networked environments, partnering with infrastructure and networking teams during system design.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to Security team hiring and growth.

Requirements

  • 8–15+ years of software engineering experience implementing and maintaining critical systems at scale.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python or at least one systems language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++.
  • Experience operating critical systems at scale using DevOps and cloud automation practices such as infrastructure-as-code.
  • Hands-on cloud or on-premises network security engineering, including areas such as VPC design, cloud firewall policy, egress control, private service connectivity, or network segmentation.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes security and networking, including network policy, service identity, and container hardening.
  • Experience with threat modeling and risk assessment for networked and multi-cloud systems.
  • Track record of driving engineering excellence through code reviews, high standards, and mentorship.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts across organizational levels.
  • Experience supporting fast-paced startup engineering teams.
  • Preferred experience includes secured Kubernetes networking at scale, CNI, network policy, service mesh or mTLS rollouts, high-assurance environments, cloud-to-data-center interconnects, network traffic visibility, exfiltration detection, distributed training infrastructure, automated policy enforcement, and container security hardening.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary of £255,000–£325,000 GBP.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office presence.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration-lawyer support.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
Anthropic

About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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