Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

at Anthropic

📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 320,000-405,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote ✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

Python @ 5 SQL @ 5 Communication @ 6 Fraud @ 3 KYC @ 3 AI @ 3

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Identity & Access Controls team builds systems that verify customers, grant and revoke access to advanced model capabilities, and ensure access is not misused. This role focuses on identity, vetting, access management infrastructure, monitoring, and enforcement tooling to support trusted access programs.

Responsibilities

Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) for individual and business customers
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 per customer 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

Requirements

Minimum qualifications

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

6+ years of industry software engineering experience
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

Compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD

Logistics

Remote-friendly role with travel required; locations listed include San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and New York City, NY
Location-based hybrid policy: staff expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least ~25% of the time
Visa sponsorship is offered (the posting states the company sponsors visas and retains an immigration lawyer to assist)