Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse

About the role

The Account Abuse team is tasked with ensuring Anthropic’s computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from coming back. As a software engineer on this team, you will build systems that gather and analyze signals at scale, balancing tradeoffs and coordinating closely with stakeholder teams throughout the company. The ideal candidate can see things from opponents’ perspectives, understand their means and motives, and anticipate their responses to countermeasures.

Responsibilities

• Ability to think and respond quickly in a rapidly-changing greenfield environment
• Jumping into other teams’ code to identify key points to gather signals or introduce interventions with minimal impact on their systems’ stability, complexity, or overall architecture
• Integration with third-party data-enrichment vendors
• Creating monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX
• Working closely with our data scientists to maintain situational awareness of our current usage patterns and trends, and with our Policy & Enforcement team to maximize the impact of their human-review availability
• Building robust and reliable multi-layered defenses
• Lead root cause analyses and deep-dive investigations into account activity to identify abuse patterns, uncover emerging attack vectors, and inform both immediate enforcement actions and longer-term systemic defenses

You may be a good fit if you have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Strong candidates may also:

• Have 8+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships and co-ops), preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection
• Have experience building trust and safety mechanisms for and using AI/ML systems, such as fraud-detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale
• Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy

We currently expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship

We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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