Anthropic

Senior Software Security Engineer

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14 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$320k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain identity and secrets management systems for credential issuance, rotation, and workload authentication across multi-cloud environments.
  • Implement cluster security controls including RBAC policies, namespace isolation, workload identity, and pod security.
  • Implement cloud security controls involving IAM, network segmentation, VPC architecture, and encryption across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Design secure development frameworks and libraries for service-to-service authentication, serialization, and tool proxies.
  • Harden CI/CD pipelines against supply-chain attacks using isolated builds, signed attestations, dependency verification, and automated policy enforcement.
  • Identify and remediate security gaps through code review, threat modeling, and hands-on debugging.
  • Improve cloud security posture through infrastructure-as-code scanning, misconfiguration detection, and automated remediation.

Requirements

  • 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 a systems language such as Go or Rust.
  • Experience contributing to cloud security controls.
  • Ability to own problems end to end, from issue identification through shipping and monitoring fixes.
  • Clear communication and collaborative cross-team working skills.
  • Strong candidates may also have experience with developer security tooling, Kubernetes security primitives, cloud security posture management, infrastructure-as-code security scanning, network security, eBPF, kernel security policies, secrets management, workload authentication, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SPIFFE/SPIRE, or research-oriented environments.

Benefits

  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for some roles and candidates, with immigration-lawyer support.
  • Competitive benefits including generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, optional equity donation matching, and collaborative office space.

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About Anthropic

501-1,000 employees

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

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