# Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- backend systems
- identity verification
- access control

### Nice to have
- identity authentication
- authorization systems
- KYC/KYB workflows
- trust and safety
- fraud detection

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