Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Account Abuse team ensures Anthropic's computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from returning.

• Build systems that gather and analyze signals at scale, balancing tradeoffs and coordinating closely with stakeholder teams throughout the company
• Jump into other teams' code to identify key points to gather signals or introduce interventions with minimal impact on their systems' stability, complexity, or overall architecture
• Integrate with third-party data-enrichment vendors
• Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX
• Work with data scientists to maintain situational awareness of usage patterns and trends, and with the Policy & Enforcement team to maximize the impact of their human-review availability
• Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses; lead root cause analyses and deep-dive investigations into account activity to identify abuse patterns and emerging attack vectors

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships and co-ops), preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection
• Experience building trust and safety mechanisms for and using AI/ML systems, such as fraud-detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale
• Experience working closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Annual Salary: $320,000—$485,000 USD

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Location-based hybrid policy: all staff expected in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is offered.