Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

USD 320,000-405,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ Remote ✅ Hybrid
✅ Visa Sponsorship

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

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)

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration