Staff+ Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

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

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space for collaboration

Job summary

Anthropic is looking for a Software Engineer to join their Identity & Access Controls team in San Francisco. You will build and manage systems to verify customer identities and control access to AI capabilities, ensuring safety and compliance.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and proficiency in Python and SQL, with a strong commitment to the societal impacts of AI. Competitive compensation ranges from $320,000 to $485,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
• Experience with backend systems in production.
• Communication skills to explain tech concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build identity verification systems.
• Design access control systems for advanced capabilities.
• Develop monitoring to detect misuse of access.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in SQL

Strong communication skills

Building backend systems

Understanding societal impacts of AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

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

As Claude's capabilities grow, so does our responsibility to ensure those capabilities reach the right people. The Identity & Access Controls team builds the systems that verify who our customers are, grant access to advanced model capabilities for approved use cases, and ensure that access is not misused. As a software engineer on this team, you will build the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins our trusted access programs, along with the monitoring and enforcement tooling that keeps them safe. This work sits at the center of how Anthropic deploys frontier capabilities responsibly, balancing broad access with rigorous safeguards.

Key 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
• Detect and remediate account takeover
• Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors
• Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin tooling
• Work closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, and go-to-market teams to ensure access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied

Minimum qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
• Experience building and operating backend systems in production
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships and co-ops)
• Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale
• Experience with KYC/KYB workflows or identity verification vendors
• Experience in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection
• Experience detecting and responding to account takeover or credential compromise
• Experience partnering with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $320,000 – $485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.