Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco · USD 320,000-485,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 320,000-485,000 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
About Anthropic
- Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
- The Access Programs team builds the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to advanced AI model capabilities.
- This role involves developing monitoring and enforcement tooling to ensure safe deployment and prevent misuse of frontier AI capabilities.
- The engineer will work at the intersection of identity verification, safety systems, and cross-functional policy implementation.
Responsibilities
- Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) for individual and business customers.
- Design and implement access control systems to grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities.
- Build infrastructure to configure safety systems and detection thresholds per customer.
- Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access and tooling for enforcement teams.
- Partner with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams.
- Build systems to identify account compromise and takeover, apply real-time mitigations, and manage remediation.
- Design and build dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling for program visibility.
- Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience building software with AI coding tools.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Commitment to the societal impacts of AI and making powerful systems safer.
Preferred qualifications
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Experience building shared platforms or foundational services.
- Track record of working across functions to gather requirements and drive adoption.
- 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.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $320,000—$485,000 USD
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy requires staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time.
- Some roles may require more time in the office than the 25% minimum.
Skills
- Backend Systems
- Identity Verification
- KYC
- KYB
- Access Control
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Abuse Detection
- AI Coding Tools
