Staff+ Software Security Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <p>The Security Engineering team protects Anthropic's AI systems and maintains the trust of our users and society. We define the authentication architecture for our training infrastructure, design the cryptographic foundations that protect model weights and training data, and drive the developer security program that shapes how engineers build and ship software.</p> <p>The team works across several areas that collaborate closely: identity and secrets management, developer security and supply chain, infrastructure security, and secure frameworks. You will own one or two of these areas and contribute to others, with your focus shaped by your strengths and the team's priorities. This is largely greenfield work, and you will help define the architecture.</p> <h2><strong>About the role:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Scope, design, and build complex security systems end to end, maintaining them through production and driving through ambiguous technical challenges with minimal oversight</li> <li>Identify systematic risks through threat modeling and risk assessment, then build the controls and infrastructure that address them</li> <li>Mentor engineers across the security team and broader engineering organization, contribute to hiring, and grow security engineering culture at Anthropic</li> <li>Enable other teams to build their own security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership beyond the security team</li> </ul> <p><strong>Developer security and supply chain</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and advance our de