Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Security Fusion Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

Data Center Security Engineering (DCSE) owns physical security across Anthropic's data center footprint: the sites, the hardware inside them, and the supply chain that delivers it. The Security Fusion Platform is where physical security signals from across that footprint are correlated and put in…

• Design and build the event bus and normalized event schema: source identity, sequencing, health state, and the adapter contract that owners of each sensor and system feed build…
• Build correlation and alerting: the rules and services that turn events from independent sources into alerts an analyst can act on
• Build the classification and analytics pipelines: computer vision and multi-sensor fusion, with results landing on the event bus
• Build analyst surfaces: the queue, escalation tooling, dashboards, camera viewers, and video wall content a 24/7 watch works from, plus video analytics integration so camera…
• Deliver audit evidence: durable, tamper-evident event history, evidence exports, and the retention and access controls around them

What they're looking for

• Have built and run event-driven backend systems in production
• Are proficient in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and have worked with a message bus or event streaming system such as Kafka
• Have owned a system end to end: set the design, made the tradeoffs, shipped it, and answered for it in production
• Have integrated with external systems you did not control (vendor APIs, on-prem appliances, video platforms, building systems) and designed for a life beyond any one vendor
• Have directed vendor or integrator work: written requirements and acceptance criteria, reviewed deliverables against them, and decided what gets accepted

Tech stack

• Python
• Go
• Rust
• Kafka