# Staff+ Application Security Engineer  - M&A

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/5054d2b7-c8e2-4e81-907e-81a6329882e3

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: New York, NY
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 320000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads security assessment and integration for Anthropic's acquisitions, combining M&A due diligence with ongoing application security work. It suits experienced AppSec engineers who enjoy rapid-fire codebase assessment under time pressure and want to build repeatable security processes at a high-growth AI company.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Cloud Security, Go, Python, Rust, Threat Modeling, TypeScript

## Required

- Hands-on application and infrastructure security experience including cloud and containerized environments
- Ability to rapidly assess unfamiliar codebases and produce clear prioritized risk assessments for non-security audiences
- Production-quality coding in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Practical threat modeling and vulnerability identification skills
- Ability to operate with high autonomy, ambiguity, and confidential context
- Clear written and verbal communication across executives, legal, and engineering teams

## Nice to have

- 7+ years in application security, security consulting, or security architecture
- Prior M&A security due diligence or third-party security assessment experience
- Experience scaling SAST/DAST, bug bounty, or vulnerability management across codebases
- Track record of building security automation and tooling
- Familiarity with using LLMs in security workflows
- Experience securing agentic, code-execution, or LLM-integrated systems

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5311463008