Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products
$405K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 9, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years as a software engineer; the logistics section says required 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, the company will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Build and ship Claude Security features, translating frontier model capabilities into reliable cybersecurity products from prototype through production.
What you'll do
- Build user-facing and/or backend features, agent loops, tool integrations, and enabling infrastructure for cybersecurity products.
- Work with product, go-to-market, customers, partners, and research teams to shape features and develop model capabilities for security applications.
- Iterate based on user feedback and internal testing, making roadmap and implementation tradeoffs.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Experience building distributed systems.
- Ability to contribute across the stack, from front-end UI to back-end infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across functions.
Nice to have
- Experience building client-side terminal applications or cybersecurity products.
- Experience in incident response, reverse engineering, network analysis, penetration testing, Claude Code or similar tools, or Claude Managed Agents or similar frameworks.
Pay
$405,000 — $485,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Python, Go, Claude Code, Claude Managed Agents
AI focus
Collaborate with research teams to identify and develop frontier-model capabilities for cybersecurity applications, and build products around those capabilities.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative