Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Review Tooling

Job Overview

The Safeguards team at Anthropic is responsible for ensuring models and products are developed and deployed safely. We are looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer to join our Review Tooling team, which builds systems used by humans and AI to investigate potential harms and take enforcement actions across Anthropic's products and third-party cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Build investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for first-party and third-party platform surfaces
• Develop a platform layer of reusable APIs, data storage, and backend services
• Scale review through automation, including enabling reviewers to use Claude effectively
• Partner with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable systems
• Build guardrails for sensitive internal tools, including granular permissions and audit trails
• Instrument tools to surface metrics on queue health, reviewer throughput, and decision quality

Requirements

• Technical background in full-stack or platform engineering
• Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users
• Experience working cross-functionally with non-engineering partners
• Excellent communication skills
• Care about the societal impacts of AI

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
• Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse-prevention tooling
• Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data governance constraints
• Experience integrating LLMs or agentic systems into operational workflows
• Experience building developer platforms or extensible tooling frameworks

Logistics

• Annual salary: $320,000 - $485,000 USD
• Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time
• Visa sponsorship available