Staff Software Engineer, Safeguards Tooling

Society for AI Security; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Staff+ Software Engineer for Safeguards Human Review Tooling in San Francisco. You will own internal investigation and enforcement tooling used by safety investigators, and help build the platform underneath those tools.

You’ll deploy across clouds, scale reviews with Claude integration, partner with policy, operations, data science, and privacy teams, and design reliable, auditable systems that reduce handling time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience building data labeling, trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse-prevention tooling, or other systems supporting human review at scale.
• Have built systems that handle sensitive or regulated data, with requirements around access control, auditability, retention, and data residency.
• Have worked across multiple cloud providers, or built infrastructure designed to be provider-agnostic.
• A product-minded approach to internal users: you work directly with the people using your tools, watch where they struggle, and fix it.

Responsibilities

• Build investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for both first‑party and third‑party platform surfaces — including case queues, investigation views, decision and audit logging, and account‑actioning workflows
• Develop the platform layer of reusable APIs, data storage, and backend services that lets new review workflows be stood up quickly and safely
• Stand up and run deployments of this tooling across multiple clouds, including inside cloud‑provider partner environments where data must stay in place. Keep the deployments consistent through shared deployment pipelines, smoke tests, observability, and alerting
• Scale review through automation, including enabling reviewers to use Claude effectively and building toward Claude‑assisted and Claude‑driven review workflows
• Partner with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable, well‑designed systems that measurably reduce handling time and decision error
• Instrument the tools you ship — surfacing metrics on queue health, reviewer throughput, and decision quality — and ensure tooling evolves alongside new privacy primitives and data retention commitments
• A technical background in full‑stack or platform engineering, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and design discussions
• Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users, and a track record of improving their workflows measurably
• Experience working cross‑functionally with non‑engineering partners such as operations, policy, or legal teams
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non‑technical stakeholders
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud deployments

Security tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a Staff+ Software Engineer for Safeguards Human Review Tooling in San Francisco. You will own internal investigation and enforcement tooling used by safety investigators, and help build the platform underneath those tools.

You’ll deploy across clouds, scale reviews with Claude integration, partner with policy, operations, data science, and privacy teams, and design reliable, auditable systems that reduce handling time.