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Senior Software Security Engineer

Anthropic
Posted a month ago

LOCATION

San Francisco · Hybrid

EXPERIENCE

5+ Years

SALARY

$320K - $405K /year

SKILLS REQUIRED

Identity SecurityCloud IAMSecure CI/CDSecrets ManagementRBAC authorizationThreat Modeling

Job description

Overview

Senior Software Security Engineer focused on protecting AI infrastructure and developer workflows through identity/security controls, secure frameworks, and hardened pipelines.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain identity and secrets management systems, including credential issuance, rotation, and workload authentication.
  • Implement cluster security controls such as RBAC policies, namespace isolation, workload identity, and pod security.
  • Implement cloud security controls including IAM, network segmentation, VPC architecture, and encryption across multi-cloud and on-prem.
  • Design and implement secure development frameworks and libraries to enable secure coding (e.g., service-to-service authentication, serialization libraries, tool proxies).
  • Harden CI/CD pipelines against supply chain attacks via isolated build environments, signed attestations, dependency verification, and automated policy enforcement.
  • Identify and remediate security gaps using code review, threat modeling, and hands-on debugging.
  • Contribute to continuous cloud security posture management using infrastructure-as-code scanning and automated remediation.

What you'll need

  • 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 a systems language such as Go or Rust.
  • Experience contributing to cloud security controls.
  • Track record of end-to-end ownership from identifying issues to shipping and monitoring fixes.
  • Clear communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams.
  • Low ego and high empathy with interest in helping teammates succeed.

Details

  • Location-based hybrid policy expects staff in an office at least 25% of the time.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for some roles/candidates.

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Senior Software Security Engineer