Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs
$320K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job-level requirements; strong candidates may have 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration-lawyer support.
About the job
Build identity verification, vetting, access management, monitoring, and enforcement systems for Anthropic’s trusted access programs.
What you'll do
- Build customer identity verification and vetting, access controls, and per-customer safety configuration systems.
- Develop monitoring, misuse detection, account-compromise mitigation, and enforcement tooling.
- Create dashboards and admin tools, integrate identity vendors, and collaborate across policy, enforcement, product, research, and other teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
- Experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language and experience building software with AI coding tools.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale; KYC/KYB or identity verification vendors.
- Experience in trust and safety, fraud or abuse detection, account takeover response, shared platforms, or operational tooling.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
KYC/KYB
AI focus
Build systems that govern access to advanced AI capabilities and help ensure their safe, responsible use; use AI coding tools in software development.
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