Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company focusing on AI safety in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for the Account Abuse team. This role involves building systems for signal analysis and collaborating with various teams to ensure fair resource allocation. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree, 5-10 years in software engineering, and strong skills in Python and SQL. The position offers a competitive salary range of $320,000 to $405,000 and adheres to a hybrid work policy.

Qualifications

• 5‑10+ years of experience in a software engineering position with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Think and respond quickly in a rapidly changing environment.
• Jump into other teams’ code to gather signals with minimal impact.
• Integrate with third-party data-enrichment vendors.
• Create monitoring dashboards and alerts.
• Work with data scientists to maintain usage patterns awareness.
• Build robust multi-layered defenses.
• Lead investigations to identify abuse patterns.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis tools

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

The Account Abuse team is tasked with ensuring Anthropic’s computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from coming back. As a software engineer on this team, you will build systems that gather and analyze signals at scale, balancing tradeoffs and coordinating closely with stakeholder teams throughout the company. The ideal candidate can see things from opponents’ perspectives, understand their means and motives, and anticipate their responses to countermeasures.

Responsibilities

• Ability to think and respond quickly in a rapidly‑changing greenfield environment
• Jumping into other teams’ code to identify key points to gather signals or introduce interventions with minimal impact on their systems’ stability, complexity, or overall architecture
• Integration with third‑party data‑enrichment vendors
• Creating monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX
• Working closely with our data scientists to maintain situational awareness of our current usage patterns and trends, and with our Policy & Enforcement team to maximize the impact of their human‑review availability
• Building robust and reliable multi‑layered defenses
• Lead root cause analyses and deep‑deep investigations into account activity to identify abuse patterns, uncover emerging attack vectors, and inform both immediate enforcement actions and longer‑term systemic defenses

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• 5‑10+ years of experience in a software engineering position, preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders

Strong Candidates May Also

• Have experience building trust and safety mechanisms for and using AI/ML systems, such as fraud‑detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale
• Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Annual Salary

$320,000—$405,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work.

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