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Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Anthropic· Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
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Hybrid (New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software engineer on the Safeguards team focused on building distributed and scalable systems to detect unwanted model behaviors, monitor models, prevent misuse, and enforce safety policies for AI systems at Anthropic.

Responsibilities

  • Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
  • Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review
  • Stand up and run deployments of those monitoring systems across multiple clouds, including inside cloud-provider partner environments where data residency laws apply; maintain consistency via shared deployment pipelines, smoke tests, observability, and alerting
  • Design and harden the sandboxed runtime that AI agents execute in: isolation, network egress controls, least-privilege data access, audit logging, and insider-risk controls
  • Manage cost and capacity for large volumes of long-running agent work, and set and meet service-level objectives for the platform
  • Partner with engineers, researchers, security, privacy, and legal teams to ship new detection work quickly on a trusted platform

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
  • Proficiency in Python, Distributed Systems, and Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience across multiple cloud providers or provider-agnostic infrastructure design
  • Built and operated large-scale distributed infrastructure such as data platforms, control planes, or job schedulers
  • Experience with sandboxing and isolation technologies (containers, microVMs, network policy) or with a systems language such as Rust
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:PythonDistributed SystemsInfrastructure as CodeCloud providersCommunication
Nice to have:Sandboxing / isolation

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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