Staff Software Engineer: Scalable Abuse Defense

Anthropic Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited in Seattle is seeking a Software Engineer for the Account Abuse team. You will build scalable systems that gather signals, analyze abuse indicators, and coordinate with policy, enforcement and data science to protect our users and compute resources.

You’ll dive into existing code, integrate third-party data, create monitoring dashboards, and lead investigations into abuse patterns while maintaining system stability and security.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Think and respond quickly in a rapidly-changing environment.
• Dive into other teams’ code to gather signals or intervene with minimal impact.
• Integrate with third-party data-enrichment vendors.
• Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX.
• Collaborate with data scientists to monitor usage patterns and with the Policy & Enforcement team to maximize human-review impact.
• Build robust, multi-layered defenses.
• Lead root cause analyses and investigations into account activity to identify abuse patterns and inform defenses

Skills

Communication skills

Non-technical explainability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Python

SQL

Data analysis tools

Job description

Anthropic Limited in Seattle is seeking a Software Engineer for the Account Abuse team. You will build scalable systems that gather signals, analyze abuse indicators, and coordinate with policy, enforcement and data science to protect our users and compute resources.

You’ll dive into existing code, integrate third-party data, create monitoring dashboards, and lead investigations into abuse patterns while maintaining system stability and security.