Description
Job Overview
As a Staff / Senior Data Center Security Engineer at Anthropic, you will play a crucial role in securing our data center infrastructure. You will design, build, and verify security controls and tooling to protect our sites, hardware, and personnel.
Key Responsibilities
- Own one or more security domains end-to-end, including physical security, hardware supply chain, media protection, personnel security, and third-party vendor security assessment
- Design and build internal tools, automation, and AI agents to support security operations
- Conduct security reviews for new sites, leases, and vendors to identify gaps and develop security terms and exhibits
- Write requirements and procedures as code to ensure compliance and facilitate testing
- Assess sites and suppliers against requirements and engineer compensating controls where necessary
- Provide continuous compliance evidence and respond to security events
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience engineering a security control domain end-to-end
- Ability to read and review code, design data systems, and build automation using Git and code review
- Hands-on experience with security work in data centers, critical infrastructure, or large hardware fleets
- Familiarity with control frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, or SOC 2
- Ability to write requirements that third parties can build to and assessors can test
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across multiple security domains
- Experience with federal assessment regimes based on NIST SP 800-53
- Familiarity with governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) or evidence automation
- Experience with incident response at physical sites
- Experience working in live data halls and on active construction sites
Logistics
- Annual salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Field of study: Relevant to the role
- Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements