Staff Platform Safety Engineer: Scale & Secure Access

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited seeks a Staff+ Software Engineer for Platform Safety in San Francisco, focusing on scalable access control and verification systems for AI models. You will shape architecture, during 0→1 initiatives, and mentor a growing team across safeguards, product, design, and research.

You'll own KYC/KYB workflows, integrate verification vendors, protect sensitive data, and ensure highly available services across cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience leading across the stack and with product teams.
• Hands-on with scalable distributed systems and high availability.
• Ability to design 0→1 initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Familiarity with identity, access, and verification systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate access control and verification systems for model access.
• Develop a reusable KYC/KYB platform with vendor integrations.
• Evolve core services for access decisions to be scalable and highly available.
• Lead designs, review proposals, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Backend engineering

Platform scalability

Distributed systems

KYC/KYB systems

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

CI/CD

Job description

Anthropic Limited seeks a Staff+ Software Engineer for Platform Safety in San Francisco, focusing on scalable access control and verification systems for AI models. You will shape architecture, during 0→1 initiatives, and mentor a growing team across safeguards, product, design, and research.

You'll own KYC/KYB workflows, integrate verification vendors, protect sensitive data, and ensure highly available services across cloud platforms.