Senior Security Software Engineer, Linux Kernel Security - Nodes & Sensors

<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 role</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic's Detection Platform team is building the next-generation Linux endpoint security system that protects our AI research and production infrastructure. We're looking for a senior engineer to architect and implement node-layer security sensors, develop kernel-based detection systems for ML workloads, and build tooling that leverages Claude to transform how security operations work.</p> <p>This is a high-ownership role on a small team. You'll design systems that run across our rapidly growing fleet with minimal performance overhead, partner closely with security and infrastructure engineers, and help shape the technical direction of endpoint detection at Anthropic.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build kernel-level security detections for our AI platform, including eBPF-based sensors for Linux endpoints</li> <li>Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing security telemetry across our infrastructure</li> <li>Architect monitoring solutions for production systems that minimize performance impact on ML workloads</li> <li>Prototype new security tooling and analytics capabilities, including applications of Claude to detection and response workflows</li> <li>Partner with security and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable systems</li> <li>Contribute to the growth of the Security team through code reviews, mentorship, and hiring</li> <li>Participate in an on-call rotation</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Minimum qualifications</strong></h2> <ul>