Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

As a software engineer on Anthropic's Identity & Access Controls team, you will build the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins our trusted access programs.

Key responsibilities:

• Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who 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
• Detect and remediate account takeover
• Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors
• Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin tooling
• Work closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, and go-to-market teams to ensure access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied

Minimum qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
• Experience building and operating backend systems in production
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• 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

Preferred qualifications:

• 6+ years of industry software engineering experience
• 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 $320,000-$405,000 USD.