Description
The Security Risk team is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and driving treatment of Anthropic's most important security risks. As a Staff+ Security Engineer, you will help define what replaces the conventional GRC playbook, which was not built for a company shipping frontier AI. You will take ownership of Anthropic's most complex security risk problems and drive them end to end with minimal oversight. You will also build the systems that make risk measurable and let risk work scale, including quantification tooling, automated intake and triage, and the observability that partner teams use to understand their own risk posture.
Key responsibilities include:
- Taking ownership of Anthropic's most complex security risk problems and driving them end to end with minimal oversight
- Building the systems that make risk measurable and let risk work scale
- Working alongside Security Engineering as a calibrated technical peer who pressure tests architectures and treatment plans
- Mentoring engineers and risk practitioners across Security and the broader engineering organization
Minimum qualifications include:
- At least 8 years of software engineering or security engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Strong programming skills in Python or at least one systems language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++
- Broad knowledge across the core security engineering domains
Preferred qualifications include:
- Owned a named security risk and driven it from discovery through remediation across multiple teams
- Briefed executives on risk decisions and defended accept, remediate, or transfer recommendations under challenge
- Built security automation, detection, or risk platforms adopted across an engineering organization
The annual compensation range for this role is $405,000 USD.