Senior Security Software Engineer, Linux Kernel Security - Nodes & Sensors
Anthropic
| Company | Anthropic |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Zürich |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 24 Apr 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role
Anthropic's Detection Platform team is building the next-generation Linux endpoint security system that protects our AI research and production infrastructure. We're looking for a senior engineer to architect and implement node-layer security sensors, develop kernel-based detection systems for ML workloads, and build tooling that leverages Claude to transform how security operations work.
This is a high-ownership role on a small team. You'll design systems that run across our rapidly growing fleet with minimal performance overhead, partner closely with security and infrastructure engineers, and help shape the technical direction of endpoint detection at Anthropic.
Key responsibilities
Build kernel-level security detections for our AI platform, including eBPF-based sensors for Linux endpoints
Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing security telemetry across our infrastructure
Architect monitoring solutions for production systems that minimize performance impact on ML workloads
Prototype new security tooling and analytics capabilities, including applications of Claude to detection and response workflows
Partner with security and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable systems
Contribute to the growth of the Security team through code reviews, mentorship, and hiring
Participate in an on-call rotation
Minimum qualifications
Background in software engineering with a focus on security, infrastructure, Linux internals, and/or operating systems
Ability to write maintainable and secure code in Rust and/or C/C++
Strong understanding of operating system internals and OS security primitives
Experience with test-driven development and CI/CD workflows
Experience partnering with security teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
Track record of leading technical projects with minimal guidance and bringing clarity to ambiguous problems
Preferred qualifications
7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on security, infrastructure, or operating systems work
Direct experience with eBPF and kernel-level instrumentation
Experience with detection-as-code workflows
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Background building security tooling from the ground up
Experience implementing security monitoring solutions (SIEM, log aggregation, EDR)
Background in detection engineering or security operations
Experience with SOAR platform or security automation development
Experience with data lake and database architecture, or query optimization over large datasets
Experience with API design and internal platform development
Track record of applying ML or AI to security problems
Experience scaling security operations in a high-growth environment
Experience contributing to hiring, mentorship, and engineering culture on a security team
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't abl
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