Staff Data Platform Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic, based in San Francisco, is hiring software engineers to build safety and oversight mechanisms for AI systems. As a member of the Safeguards team, you will design pipelines, data stores, and governance controls across AWS, GCP, and Azure to uphold safety and transparency while enforcing our terms and policies.

You will work on data foundations powering detection, evaluation, and review systems, ensuring correctness, access controls, and portability across customer-managed environments.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines or data stores in production.
• Ability to work across the data stack, including ingestion, storage, and consumption.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to people outside your discipline.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the data platform that powers Safeguards, including ingestion and processing pipelines, warehouses and other data stores, and the schemas and interfaces that detection and review systems depend on.
• Keep Safeguards systems running day to day and hold a high operational bar that serves both safety and customers, while reducing the manual effort needed to sustain it.
• Own data governance and integrity, including retention and access controls, privacy-preserving handling of sensitive data, lineage, and correctness guarantees that downstream consumers can rely on.
• Design systems that run portably across cloud providers, working within the constraints of customer-managed and third-party environments.
• Partner with the analysts, investigators, and researchers who rely on this data, and build the internal tooling their work depends on

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data stores

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic, based in San Francisco, is hiring software engineers to build safety and oversight mechanisms for AI systems. As a member of the Safeguards team, you will design pipelines, data stores, and governance controls across AWS, GCP, and Azure to uphold safety and transparency while enforcing our terms and policies.

You will work on data foundations powering detection, evaluation, and review systems, ensuring correctness, access controls, and portability across customer-managed environments.