Staff Software Engineer, Access Programs

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will build production identity verification, vetting, access-control, monitoring, enforcement, and account-protection systems. You will create internal dashboards and tooling, integrate third-party vendors, and partner across functions to apply access decisions consistently.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Strong coding skills in a general-purpose programming language
  • Experience building software with AI coding tools
  • Experience building shared platforms or foundational services
  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Build identity verification and vetting systems
  • Design and implement access-control systems
  • Build per-customer safety-system configuration infrastructure
  • Develop misuse monitoring and enforcement tooling
  • Build systems to identify and mitigate account compromise and takeover
  • Design dashboards, alerting, and internal administration tooling
  • Integrate third-party identity-verification and data-enrichment vendors

Benefits

  • Equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours