Staff + Software Security Engineer (Secure Frameworks)

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Relocation support

Home office stipend

Daily meals in office

Job summary

Anthropic’s Secure Frameworks team builds foundational security libraries and frameworks used company-wide. You will design, build, and operate security services across Anthropic’s fleet, focusing on cryptographic frameworks, mTLS, and authorization systems to prevent classes of vulnerabilities.

Collaborating with product, research, and infrastructure teams, you will drive architectural decisions, own delivery, and mentor engineers while growing security culture across Anthropic.

Qualifications

• Expertise in building security-relevant systems and libraries.
• Experience shipping reliable security services in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate security foundations used across Anthropic’s fleet, from threat modeling to production and on-call.
• Own cryptographic frameworks and libraries.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring within Security Engineering.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

Kubernetes

OAuth 2.0

mTLS

X.509

JWT

PKI

Zero trust

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSSL

Job description

• Secure Frameworks is the team in Anthropic’s Security Engineering org that builds shared security libraries and frameworks the rest of the company builds on
• We collaborate closely with teams and leaders across Anthropic to own critical security foundations, including workload identity and authorization, cryptographic frameworks, and the centralized access proxy that secures traffic to internal applications
• Our mission is to make the secure thing easy and the easy thing secure by helping Anthropic engineers get secure behaviour by default and preventing entire classes of vulnerabilities through careful design
• We own what we ship, help customers adopt better security practices and at times we work embedded directly in research, infrastructure or product teams
• You will design, build and run security foundations used across Anthropic’s fleet, from threat model through production, on-call and adoption
• Much of the work is greenfield: our infrastructure is growing quickly and the timelines are compressed, so you will help define the architecture rather than inherit it
• Depending on your strengths you will focus on one or two of the areas below and contribute across the rest
• Build critical security foundations including cryptographic frameworks, mTLS infrastructure, secure serialization, and authorization systems, designed to prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities
• Partner with product, research, infrastructure, and other security teams to ensure frameworks integrate smoothly with lower-layer security controls
• Scope, design and build security services and libraries end-to-end, maintain them in production, and drive through ambiguous technical problems with minimal oversight
• Build and operate the zero-trust access gateway that fronts Anthropic’s internal services
• Design and roll out authorization frameworks so services enforce least privilege consistently instead of each inventing its own access controls
• Own cryptographic frameworks and libraries
• Mentor engineers, contribute to hiring, and grow security engineering culture across Anthropic

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office

Working knowledge of applied cryptography: choosing and composing primitives correctly, key management, and the ways libraries fail in practiceA strong sense of developer experienceExperience shipping and operating high-reliability services on Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem environments, including being on call for themClear communication across all levels of the organizationDeep understanding of authentication and authorization systems: OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWTs, service-to-service auth, policy-based access controlPassion for AI safety and the role security engineering plays in building trustworthy AI systemsHands-on experience with PKI, X.509, mTLS and workload identityA track record of bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems and driving them to resolution across teamsStrong programming skills in Go, Rust or Python8+ years of software engineering experience building security-relevant systems in production, including leading complex initiatives independentlyWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualificationFamiliarity with ML infrastructure (training, inference serving)Built or operated a zero-trust / BeyondCorp-style access gateway or identity-aware proxyMigrated a fleet to mTLS at scale, including certificate issuance and staged enforcementBuilt security frameworks or libraries adopted across an engineering organization, and done the work to drive that adoptionDesigned authorization systems using policy languages or relationship-based modelsMaintained or contributed to open-source cryptographic libraries