Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 66 days Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 62 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Anthropic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
- high 449 stale, 19 reposted of 603 open
- Hiring momentum
- 795 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Anthropic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Anthropic.
About this role
In this role, you will be part of the Security Risk team at Anthropic, focusing on identifying and managing complex security risks through engineering and automation. You will take ownership of security risk problems, build measurable risk systems, and collaborate closely with Security Engineering to develop effective remediation strategies. The position involves significant greenfield work, allowing you to define architecture and contribute to a risk engineering culture across the organization.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anthropic as an employer.
What you need
- 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 core security engineering domains, with depth in at least one
- Calibrated risk judgment
- Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives
Nice to have
- Owned a named security risk and driven it from discovery through remediation across multiple teams
- Briefed executives on risk decisions and defended recommendations
- Built security automation, detection, or risk platforms
- Shipped LLM or agent-powered tooling that automate security or risk activities
- A security engineering, detection engineering, or offensive security background
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond hybrid policy
- Role involves significant ambiguity and requires strong self-direction
- Emphasis on building new systems may mean initial lack of established processes
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Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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