Software Engineer — Access & Identity Programs

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a software engineer to build identity verification, vetting, and access management infrastructure for trusted access programs. You will deploy backend systems at scale, integrate with identity vendors, and collaborate with policy, enforcement, product, and research teams.

Ideal candidates have production backend experience, strong programming skills, and a passion for AI safety. This hybrid role is based in our offices with flexible schedules and visa sponsorship where

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
• Experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language, and experience building software with AI coding tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want work to make powerful systems safer.

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
• Partner with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams so access decisions are well-informed
• Build systems that identify account compromise and takeover, apply mitigations in real time, and carry affected accounts through to full remediation
• Design and build dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling for visibility into health and outcomes of access programs
• Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors

Skills

Backend development

KYC/KYB workflows

AI coding tools

Communication

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or comparable experience

Tools

Identity verification systems

Access control systems

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a software engineer to build identity verification, vetting, and access management infrastructure for trusted access programs. You will deploy backend systems at scale, integrate with identity vendors, and collaborate with policy, enforcement, product, and research teams.

Ideal candidates have production backend experience, strong programming skills, and a passion for AI safety. This hybrid role is based in our offices with flexible schedules and visa sponsorship where