Build identity verification and access management systems for AI capabilities at Anthropic.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build identity verification and vetting systems
- Design and implement access control systems
- Build infrastructure for safety systems
- Develop monitoring to detect misuse
- Design and build dashboards and internal admin tooling
Must have
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or comparable experience
- Experience building and operating backend systems in production
- Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language
- Strong communication skills
Nice to have
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Experience building shared platforms or foundational services
- Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale
- Experience with KYC/KYB workflows
- Experience in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection
Practical constraints
- Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
AI in the day-to-day
Experience building software with AI coding tools.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff+ Software Engineer on the Access Programs team at Anthropic focuses on developing systems for identity verification and access management to ensure responsible use of AI capabilities. Key skills include backend system development, proficiency in programming languages, and experience with identity verification processes. This position is well-suited for senior engineers with a strong background in building foundational services and a commitment to the societal impacts of AI. Anthropic emphasizes collaboration across various functions, making effective communication essential.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 2 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 24, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page September 26, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 96% of 24 comparable staff backend roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $210,296 across 13 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
- AI/ML appears in 10.6% of 293 comparable staff backend roles in United States; KYC appears in 0.3% of 293 comparable staff backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs role remote?
- It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA.
- What's the salary range?
- Anthropic lists $320,000–$485,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs role.
- Where is the role based?
- Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Access Control Systems, Identity verification, KYB, KYC, monitoring tools.
- Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Anthropic targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs role at Anthropic.
From the original posting
About Anthropic
About the role
As Claude's capabilities grow, so does our responsibility to ensure those capabilities reach the right people. The Access Programs team builds the systems that verify who our customers are, grant access to advanced model capabilities for approved use cases, and ensure that access is not misused. As a software engineer on this team, you will build the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins our trusted access programs, along with the monitoring and enforcement tooling that keeps them safe. This work sits at the center of how Anthropic deploys frontier capabilities responsibly, balancing broad access with rigorous safeguards.
Responsibilities:
- Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who our individual and business customers are
- 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 on a per-customer basis for trusted access programs
- Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access, and tooling that enables enforcement teams to act on it
- Partner closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams so that access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied
- Build systems that identify account compromise and takeover, apply mitigations in real time, and carry affected accounts through to full remediation
- Design and build the dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling that give the team and its partners clear visibility into the health and outcomes of our access programs
- Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors
You may be a good fit if you have:
- A 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, and experience building software with AI coding tools
- 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
Strong candidates may also:
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Experience building shared platforms or foundational services that many teams and products depend on, rather than one-off solutions for a single use case
- A track record of working across functions (for example engineering, product, policy, operations, and go-to-market) to gather requirements, reconcile competing needs, and drive adoption of what you build
- 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
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
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