Anthropic
Staff+ Application Security Engineer - M&A
$320K–$485K
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) +4 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Location
- Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required)
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
New York City, NY
Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required) - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job level requirements; 7+ years is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; Anthropic says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for an offer recipient.
About the job
Leads security due diligence and secure integration for acquisitions, while contributing to Anthropic’s broader application security work.
What you'll do
- Assess acquisition targets before closing, coordinate penetration testing and threat modeling, and deliver prioritized security risk readouts.
- Integrate acquired systems by establishing security analysis coverage, tracking remediation, and onboarding assets to security systems.
- Create repeatable M&A security processes and Claude-powered automation; coordinate stakeholders and participate in AppSec operations.
What they ask for
- Hands-on application and infrastructure security experience, including cloud and containerized environments.
- Ability to assess unfamiliar codebases or architectures and communicate prioritized risks to non-security audiences.
- Production-quality coding in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
- Practical threat modeling and vulnerability identification; ability to work autonomously with ambiguity and confidential information.
Nice to have
- 7+ years in application security, security consulting, or security architecture; M&A or technical due diligence experience.
- Experience scaling security analysis or vulnerability programs, building security automation, using LLMs in security workflows, or securing agentic and LLM-integrated systems.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Claude, SAST/DAST
AI focus
Use Claude and LLM-driven analysis to automate acquisition security diligence, code analysis, vulnerability remediation, and integration workflows; also contribute to security work on agentic systems.
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