Job brief: Staff+ Software Security Engineer

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• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Anthropic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $405,000 to $485,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-02-13 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience with deep security expertise, including leading complex security initiatives independently
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Conditions

• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Main duties

• Mentor engineers across the security team and broader engineering organization, contribute to hiring, and grow security engineering culture at Anthropic
• Build and advance our developer security program by embedding security practices into the software development lifecycle and developer workflows
• Architect systems that protect sensitive assets including model weights, customer data, and training datasets
• Build and operate credential issuance, rotation, and workload authentication across our multi-cloud environments
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls including IAM, network segmentation, VPC architecture, and encryption across our multi-cloud and on-prem envir…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in New York, NY: $218k a year (215 listings, 23 employers). This listing is 105% higher.
• Across Anthropic's 546 open listings, 53% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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