Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)

Socket.dev; Friendly (WV); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior security engineer to lead red teaming and offensive security across our cloud and on-prem infrastructure. You will simulate adversaries, discover novel attack vectors, and help shape risk-based security roadmaps.

The role requires strong programming skills (Python or Go), collaboration with blue teams, and the ability to present clear actionable findings to executives. The position offers a hybrid model with competitive compensation in the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on red teaming and offensive security operations.
• Experience with at least two: macOS/Linux/Cloud/Kubernetes/CI/CD.
• Ability to write clear findings driving action for risk prioritization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct red and purple team engagements across cloud, endpoints, and bare metal deployments.
• Penetration test high-value deployments.
• Contribute to AI-assisted security tooling and workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security and engineering teams.
• Document findings for executive audiences and inform security roadmaps.

Skills

Red teaming

Offensive security

Python/Go

Threat modeling

Blue-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

macOS security

Linux security

Cloud security (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a senior security engineer to lead red teaming and offensive security across our cloud and on-prem infrastructure. You will simulate adversaries, discover novel attack vectors, and help shape risk-based security roadmaps.

The role requires strong programming skills (Python or Go), collaboration with blue teams, and the ability to present clear actionable findings to executives. The position offers a hybrid model with competitive compensation in the United States.