Senior Software Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Posted 1d ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to ensure AI is safe and beneficial for users and society. The Security Engineering team is crucial in protecting these AI systems and maintaining user trust. This role involves defining authentication architecture, designing cryptographic foundations for model weights and training data, and leading the developer security program. The team collaborates across identity and secrets management, developer security and supply chain, infrastructure security, and secure frameworks, with opportunities to contribute across these areas based on strengths and priorities.
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 such as 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 to promote secure coding practices.
- Harden CI/CD pipelines against supply chain attacks using isolated build environments, signed attestations, dependency verification, and automated policy enforcement.
- Identify and remediate security gaps through code review, threat modeling, and debugging.
- Contribute to continuous cloud security posture management using 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 at least one systems language such as Go or Rust.
- Experience contributing to cloud security controls.
- Proven ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end, from identification to shipping and monitoring fixes.
- Clear communication skills and 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 of security engineering in building trustworthy AI systems.
Benefits
- Annual compensation range: $320,000 - $405,000 USD
- Visa sponsorship available