Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Safety
$405K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- At least 8 years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer; years required may correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, 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 an immigration lawyer.
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds the platform systems that verify identities and control access to Anthropic’s advanced models across products.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable access-control, identity, and verification services, including reusable trusted-access programs.
- Define architecture through proposals and design reviews, mentor engineers, and lead incident response while sharing on-call.
- Partner with safeguards, product, design, and research teams to translate safety policy into usable, enforceable systems and deliver new initiatives.
What they ask for
- At least 8 years of practical backend or platform engineering experience, ideally at tech lead level or equivalent.
- Experience designing and operating production distributed systems where correctness, latency, and availability matter.
- Experience setting technical direction, making independent decisions amid ambiguity, and owning work from design through operations.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with identity, access control, authorization, fraud, risk, trust and safety, or KYC/KYB systems and verification vendors.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments, or integrating with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Pay
$405,000—$485,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, KYC/KYB
AI focus
Use AI tools regularly to design, build, and review software; build safety systems that control access to advanced AI models.
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