Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Posted 26 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 26 days Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 40 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Anthropic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
- high 276 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
- 2026-09-17
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 responsible for the design, rollout, and operation of Anthropic's authentication, authorization, and identity systems that support all products. You will tackle challenges related to credential management, access control, and enterprise integration, working closely with various teams to set technical direction and ensure reliability and security in high-traffic environments.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- 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
- 8+ years of experience building and operating backend or platform systems at scale, ideally including identity, authentication, authorization, or security-adjacent infrastructure
- Experience with OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JWTs and token exchange, workload identity federation, policy engines such as Cedar or OPA, or RBAC and resource-level access control models
- Strong focus on reliability and security in system design
- Experience with large migrations in live, high-traffic systems
- Ability to take a product-focused approach to platform work and create user-friendly primitives
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions independently
Nice to have
- Experience with globally distributed databases and multi-region service architecture
- Experience working in Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript
- Prior work on enterprise identity integrations with major identity providers and cloud IAM systems
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Collaborative office space
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work beyond hybrid policy
- Visa sponsorship is available but not guaranteed for every role
- Role requires navigating ambiguity and making independent decisions, which may not suit all candidates
Summarised from Anthropic's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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