Senior Staff Data Safeguards Engineer (Cloud Data Platform)

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Mental health support

Equity packages

Relocation assistance

Home office stipend

Commuter benefits

Education stipend

Meals in office

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking software engineers for the Safeguards team to build safety, oversight, and data governance for AI systems. You will design data pipelines, stores, and detection interfaces across AWS, GCP, and Azure and ensure correctness, privacy, and portability.

You will partner with analysts, investigators, and researchers, operate large-scale data infrastructure, and help enforce our terms of service while reducing manual effort.

Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines or data stores in production.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation.
• Experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms for AI systems.
• Experience operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate data platform powering Safeguards, including pipelines and data stores.
• Keep Safeguards systems running day to day with high operational standards.
• Own data governance, retention, access controls, and privacy-preserving handling.
• Design portable systems across cloud providers and customer-managed environments.
• Collaborate with analysts, investigators, and researchers relying on data.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

SQL

Data governance

Cloud multi-cloud

Communication

Security/compliance

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Anthropic is seeking software engineers for the Safeguards team to build safety, oversight, and data governance for AI systems. You will design data pipelines, stores, and detection interfaces across AWS, GCP, and Azure and ensure correctness, privacy, and portability.

You will partner with analysts, investigators, and researchers, operate large-scale data infrastructure, and help enforce our terms of service while reducing manual effort.