Senior Security Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & AI Safety

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Security Engineer to protect our AI systems by designing and maintaining identity management, workload authentication, and cloud security controls across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

You will build secure development frameworks, improve CI/CD security, and drive threat modeling and remediation. The role requires ownership, strong programming skills, and a passion for safe AI systems.

Qualifications

• 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 at least one systems language such as Go or Rust.
• Experience contributing to cloud security controls.
• A track record of taking ownership of problems end to end, from identifying the issue to shipping and monitoring the fix.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams.
• Low ego and high empathy, with a genuine interest in helping teammates succeed.
• Passion for AI safety and the role security engineering plays in building trustworthy AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain identity and secrets management systems, including credential issuance, rotation, and workload authentication across our multi-cloud environments
• Contribute to cluster security controls including RBAC policies, namespace isolation, workload identity, and pod security
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls including IAM, network segmentation, VPC architecture, and encryption across our multi-cloud and on-prem environments
• Design and implement secure development frameworks and libraries that make secure coding the path of least resistance for our engineering teams, including service to service authentication, serialization libraries, and tool proxies
• Harden CI/CD pipelines against supply chain attacks through isolated build environments, signed attestations, dependency verification, and automated policy enforcement
• Identify and remediate security gaps through code review, threat modeling, and hands‑on debugging
• Contribute to continuous cloud security posture management using infrastructure-as-code scanning, misconfiguration detection, and automated remediation

Skills

Identity management

RBAC

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Threat modeling

Security reviews

Workload authentication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes security

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Security Engineer to protect our AI systems by designing and maintaining identity management, workload authentication, and cloud security controls across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

You will build secure development frameworks, improve CI/CD security, and drive threat modeling and remediation. The role requires ownership, strong programming skills, and a passion for safe AI systems.