Application Security Engineering Manager

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Application Security team in ensuring the security and integrity of our products and third-party software used across all of Anthropic. You will collaborate closely with teams and leaders across Anthropic, providing guidance on security risks and mitigation, and secure development architecture.

What you'll do

• Oversee “shift left" security efforts to build security into the software development lifecycle, with a focus on automation and scalability
• Ensure your team has the right processes and procedures to assist with threat modeling, secure design reviews, risk acceptance and security code reviews
• Operate our vulnerability management, security partnerships, and bug bounty / vulnerability disclosure programs
• Help to develop security policies, standards, playbooks and secure coding training content
• Encourage automation of applicable security-specific workloads and building tools that enable Anthropic teams to self-serve
• Build partnerships and collaborate with product and research teams to instill security best practices
• Manage and grow a team of Application Security engineers to deliver high-impact projects and experiences to our internal users

Who you are

• 5+ years hands-on application and infrastructure security experience
• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Possesses a deep understanding of security best practices, threat modeling, risk assessment
• Experienced in securing complex cloud environments (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP)
• Knowledgeable in AI/ML security risks and mitigations
• Strong in verbal and written communication and can distill complex security topics
• Skilled at collaborating cross-functionally and effectively balancing security requirements with business objectives
• Able to drive high-impact work while incorporating feedback
• Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers in a fast-paced environment
• Low ego, high empathy, and have a track record as a talent magnet

Compensation and Logistics

The annual compensation range for this role is $405,000—$485,000 USD. We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. This is a hybrid role, with staff expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available, and Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to secure one if an offer is extended.

How We're Different

At Anthropic, we believe in big science for AI research, working as a single cohesive team on large-scale efforts. Our focus is on advancing long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI through empirical science and highly collaborative research discussions. We value impact and excellent communication skills. Read our recent research, which includes GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences, to understand our research directions.

Key skills/competency

• Application Security
• Cloud Security
• Threat Modeling
• SDLC Security
• Vulnerability Management
• Kubernetes
• AWS/GCP
• AI/ML Security
• Engineering Management
• Security Architecture