Staff+ Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Engineering & Design - Product · listed January 9, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
7+ years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$405,000 – $485,000 USD
Requirements listed
6
Length
999 words
In the posting’s own words
We're looking for a Software Engineer to join the team building Claude Security. In this role, you'll take new security capabilities in frontier models and turn them into products that customers can rely on, working across the full stack from early prototype through production.
What it asks for · 6
- Contribute across the stack, from front-end UI to back-end infrastructure
- Are proficient in TypeScript, Python, and/or Go and have experience building distributed systems
- Enjoy fast iteration and are energized by prototyping new ideas
- Are comfortable working closely with research and go-to-market teams
- Have strong communication skills and can work effectively across functions
- Have 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
Also a plus
- Experience building client-side terminal applications
- Experience developing cybersecurity products
- Experience in incident response, reverse engineering, network analysis, penetration testing, or similar fields
- Experience building skills, plugins, or hooks in Claude Code or similar tools
- Experience building with Claude Managed Agents or similar frameworks
What the job covers
- Build and ship user-facing and/or backend features for Claude Security
- Build the agent loops, tool integrations, and enabling infrastructure for cybersecurity products
- Collaborate tightly with product managers and go-to-market to understand user needs, shape feature scope, and make informed tradeoffs as you build
- Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing, improving the experience on a continuous basis
- Collaborate with research teams to identify and develop new model capabilities for security applications
Tools and skills named
Security & compliance
- Security5×
- Penetration testing
Go to market
- Go-to-market3×
Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
Product & design
- Prototyping
- Roadmap
Ways of working
- Testing2×
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems
Words the posting leans on
- experience9×
- products5×
- security5×
- build4×
- claude4×
- experience building4×
- research4×
- go-to-market3×
- models3×
- similar3×
- stack3×
- understand3×
- agent2×
- and/or2×
- applications2×
- capabilities2×
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