# Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $405k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Oauth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, Jwt, Token Exchange, Workload Identity Federation, Cedar, Opa, RBAC, Go, Python, Rust, TypeScript, Multi-Region Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Own and shape highly available authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure for Anthropic’s products, including agent and enterprise identity capabilities. The role requires 8+ years building backend or platform systems at scale, strong security and reliability practices, and experience with identity protocols or distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own critical, high-traffic authentication, authorization, and identity systems end to end, from design through rollout, operations, and iteration.
- Set technical strategy for identity and access across Anthropic products.
- Design credentials for agents and long-running autonomous workloads.
- Route access decisions through unified, low-latency authorization systems with strong security guarantees and multi-region resilience.
- Build identity models for service accounts and agents and link them with authentication systems.
- Design global distribution and multi-region failover for mission-critical services.
- Deepen enterprise integrations, including login policies, recovery methods, allowlisting, and identity-provider integrations.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and consuming product teams.
- Lead migrations in live, high-traffic systems using shadow modes and incremental rollouts.
- Build platform primitives with documentation and self-service adoption in mind.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating backend or platform systems at scale.
- Experience with identity, authentication, authorization, or security-adjacent infrastructure is preferred.
- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JWTs, token exchange, workload identity federation, policy engines such as Cedar or OPA, RBAC, or resource-level access control.
- Strong focus on reliability, security, on-call readiness, failure modes, revocation, and availability.
- Experience owning migrations in live, high-traffic systems.
- Product-focused approach to platform engineering.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and communicate clearly with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Familiarity with AI tools in software development workflows.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with globally distributed databases and multi-region service architecture.
- Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript.
- Experience with enterprise identity integrations and major identity providers or cloud IAM systems.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: **$405,000–$485,000 USD**.
- Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time.

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