Staff+ Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls at Anthropic

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA

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Anthropic is building safe and reliable AI systems. The Staff+ Software Engineer in Identity & Access Controls will design and implement identity verification, access control, and monitoring systems that safeguard our advanced model capabilities. Working closely with policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence teams, you will build infrastructure for KYC/KYB workflows, manage access permissions, detect misuse, and create dashboards and tooling to support safe deployment of frontier AI technology.

Salary

USD 320,000 - 485,000

Requirements

Skills

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
  • Experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer
  • 8+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships and co‑ops)
  • Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale
  • Experience with KYC/KYB workflows or identity verification vendors
  • Experience in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection
  • Experience detecting and responding to account takeover or credential compromise
  • Experience partnering with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Responsibilities

  • Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who our individual and business customers are
  • Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities based on approved use cases
  • Build infrastructure to configure safety systems and detection thresholds on a per-customer basis for trusted access programs
  • Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access, and tooling that enables enforcement teams to act on it
  • Detect and remediate account takeover
  • Integrate with third‑party identity verification and data enrichment vendors
  • Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin tooling
  • Work closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, and go‑to‑market teams to ensure access decisions are well‑informed and consistently applied

Technologies

PythonSQL

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