Staff Security Engineer, Risk Engineering

Job summary

Responsibilities

The Security Risk team is responsible for how Anthropic identifies, prioritizes, and drives treatment of its most important security risks. We are rebuilding risk management to operate as an engineering function through automation and AI-native platforms to enable decision making.

• Take ownership of Anthropic’s most complex security risk problems and drive them end to end with minimal oversight, turning ambiguous signals into a defensible view of severity…
• 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…
• Work alongside Security Engineering as a calibrated technical peer who pressure tests architectures and treatment plans, translates findings into prioritized remediation…
• Mentor engineers and risk practitioners across Security and the broader engineering organization, and help build a risk engineering culture in which teams own their risks and our…
• Security risk engineering

What they're looking for

• At least 8 years of software engineering or security engineering experience, including leading and remediating complex security risks independently
• 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, with depth in at least one, including identity and secrets management, developer security and supply chain…
• Calibrated risk judgment, meaning you can put a defensible severity and likelihood on an ambiguous problem and change your position when the evidence changes

Tech stack

• Python
• Go
• Rust
• C++