Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 54 days Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 62 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Anthropic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
- high 449 stale, 19 reposted of 603 open
- Hiring momentum
- 795 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Anthropic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Anthropic.
About this role
As a Staff+ Software Engineer on the Safeguards team at Anthropic, you will focus on building and maintaining the data platform that supports safety and oversight mechanisms for AI systems. Your responsibilities will include developing data pipelines, ensuring data governance and integrity, and collaborating with analysts and researchers to support their work. You will also design systems that operate across multiple cloud environments while upholding principles of safety and transparency.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anthropic as an employer.
What you need
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience building and operating data pipelines or data stores in production
- Ability to work across the data stack, including ingestion, storage, and consumption
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to people outside your discipline
Nice to have
- Extensive experience as a software engineer, including significant time on data-intensive systems
- Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
- Experience building trust and safety detection and intervention mechanisms for AI or machine learning systems
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure
- Experience working across multiple cloud providers, or building infrastructure designed to be provider-agnostic
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Python and SQL
- Role involves handling sensitive data, which may have implications for data privacy and governance
- Hybrid work policy requires at least 25% in-office presence
- Visa sponsorship is available but not guaranteed for every role
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Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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