Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity
$405K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years preferred; minimum years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides an immigration lawyer.
About the job
Own and shape the authentication, authorization, and identity platform used across Anthropic products, from system design through rollout and operations.
What you'll do
- Design and operate high-traffic identity and access systems, including credentials for agents and a unified authorization system.
- Build identity models for people, service accounts, and agents, and develop enterprise integrations such as SSO and SCIM.
- Set technical direction and lead migrations, reliability improvements, and multi-region resilience in collaboration with product, security, and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Experience building and operating backend or platform systems at scale, ideally in identity, authentication, authorization, or security infrastructure.
- Experience with one or more of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JWTs and token exchange, workload identity federation, Cedar or OPA, or access control models.
- Ability to own large migrations in live, high-traffic systems and design for reliability and security.
- Strong independent technical judgment and clear communication with cross-functional partners.
Nice to have
- Experience with globally distributed databases and multi-region service architecture.
- Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript, or enterprise identity integrations with identity providers and cloud IAM systems.
Pay
$405,000 — $485,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JWTs, Cedar, OPA, Go
AI focus
The role builds identity and access infrastructure for AI products, including credentials and access for autonomous agents; candidates should also be familiar with AI tools in their software development workflow.
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