Staff Software Security Engineer

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026

San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will build and operate security controls for large-scale AI clusters across clouds and bare-metal data centers. You will design network boundaries, secure CI/CD and development workflows, detect security drift and exfiltration paths, assess risk, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 8–15+ years of software engineering experience implementing and maintaining critical systems at scale
  • Software engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, C, or C++
  • Experience with DevOps, cloud automation, and infrastructure as code
  • Hands-on cloud or on-premises network security engineering
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes security and networking
  • Experience with threat modeling and risk assessment for networked and multi-cloud systems

Responsibilities

  • Build security for large-scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and bare-metal data centers
  • Design and implement network security controls, including segmentation, firewall policies, private connectivity, and mTLS
  • Ship security controls as secure defaults through infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows
  • Build network-traffic visibility, detect boundary drift and exfiltration paths, and automate safe remediation
  • Design secure development workflows and CI/CD pipelines
  • Threat model and assess risk for multi-cloud and networked environments
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to security-team hiring and growth

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
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