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full-timeStaff + Software Security Engineer, Secure Frameworks
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the team Secure Frameworks is the team in Anthropic's Security Engineering org that builds shared security libraries and frameworks the rest of the company builds on. We collaborate closely with teams and leaders across Anthropic to own critical security foundations, including workload identity and authorization, cryptographic frameworks, and the centralized access proxy that secures traffic to internal applications. Our mission is to make the secure thing easy and the easy thing secure by helping Anthropic engineers get secure behaviour by default and preventing entire classes of vulnerabilities through careful design. We own what we ship, help customers adopt better security practices and at times we work embedded directly in research, infrastructure or product teams. About the role You will design, build and run security foundations used across Anthropic's fleet, from threat model through production, on-call and adoption. Much of the work is greenfield: our infrastructure is growing quickly and the timelines are compressed, so you will help define the architecture rather than inherit it. Depending on your strengths you will focus on one or two of the areas below and contribute across the rest. Build critical security foundations including cryptographic frameworks, mTLS infrastructure, secure serialization, and authorization systems, designed to prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities Partner with product, research, infrastructure, and other security teams to ensure frameworks integrate smoothly with lower-layer security controls Scope, design and build security services and libraries end-to-end, maintain them in production, and drive through ambiguous technical problems with minimal oversight Build and operate the zero-trust access gateway that fronts Anthropic's internal services Design and roll out authorization frameworks so services enforce least privilege consistently instead of each inventing its own access controls Own cryptographic frameworks and libraries Mentor engineers, contribute to hiring, and grow security engineering culture across Anthropic Minimum qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience building security-relevant systems in production, including leading complex initiatives independently Strong programming skills in Go, Rust or Python Deep understanding of authentication and authorization systems: OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWTs, service-to-service auth, policy-based access control Hands-on experience with PKI, X.509, mTLS and workload identity Working knowledge of applied cryptography: choosing and composing primitives correctly, key management, and the ways libraries fail in practice Experience shipping and operating high-reliability services on Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem environments, including being on call for them A track record of bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems and driving them to resolution across teams A strong sense of developer experience Clear communication across all levels of the organization Passion for AI safety and the role security engineering plays in building trustworthy AI systems Preferred qualifications Built security frameworks or libraries adopted across an engineering organization, and done the work to drive that adoption Built or operated a zero-trust / BeyondCorp-style access gateway or identity-aware proxy Migrated a fleet to mTLS at scale, including certificate issuance and staged enforcement Maintained or contributed to open-source cryptographic libraries Designed authorization systems using policy languages or relationship-based models Familiarity with ML infrastructure (training, inference serving) The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $32,000 — $485,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if w
| Role | Staff + Software Security Engineer, Secure Frameworks |
|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic |
| Location | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-05 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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