Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data

Job Overview

As a Staff+ Software Engineer in the Safeguards Data team at Anthropic, you will build and operate data platforms that power critical safety features. Your work will have real consequences for customers and individuals affected by model misuse. You will focus on correctness, data retention, and access control, designing systems for portability across various environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage data platforms, including ingestion and processing pipelines, data warehouses, and schemas.
• Ensure high operational standards for Safeguards systems, minimizing manual effort.
• Oversee data governance, including retention, access controls, and privacy-preserving data handling.
• Design portable systems across cloud providers and environments.
• Collaborate with analysts, investigators, and researchers to build essential tooling.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with data pipelines and production data stores.
• Ability to work across the data stack, including ingestion, storage, and consumption.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience, particularly with data-intensive systems.
• Background in integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation.
• Experience with trust and safety detection mechanisms for AI or machine learning systems.
• Large-scale distributed data infrastructure experience.
• Multi-cloud provider experience or infrastructure designed for provider-agnosticism.
• Data governance experience in regulated or high-sensitivity domains.
• Experience building custom internal tooling with operational teams.

Logistics

• Annual salary: $320,000 - $485,000 USD.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Required field of study: Relevant to the role.
• Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time.
• Visa sponsorship available.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• Lovely office space.