Staff+ Software Engineer (Access Programs)

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience building and operating backend systems in production
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
• Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language, and experience building software with AI coding tools
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer
• 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 in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection
• Experience with KYC/KYB workflows or identity verification vendors
• Experience building shared platforms or foundational services that many teams and products depend on, rather than one-off solutions for a single use case
• Experience detecting and responding to account takeover or credential compromise
• Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale
• Experience partnering with operational teams to build custom internal tooling
• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience