Staff Software Engineer, Data Safeguards & Governance

Visa Hunt; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and support user well-being through data pipelines, stores, and governance controls deployed across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

You will design portable systems with strong correctness, retention discipline, and access controls, collaborating with analysts and researchers to enable responsible AI.

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

Data stack

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and support user well-being through data pipelines, stores, and governance controls deployed across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

You will design portable systems with strong correctness, retention discipline, and access controls, collaborating with analysts and researchers to enable responsible AI.