Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Human Review Tooling
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 78 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Anthropic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
- high 603 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
- 2026-10-24
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
The Staff+ Software Engineer for the Safeguards Human Review Tooling will develop and maintain internal tools that support safety investigations and enforcement actions across Anthropic's products. This role involves building investigation and review tooling, developing a platform layer for APIs and backend services, and ensuring consistent deployments across multiple cloud environments. Collaboration with various stakeholders is essential to create effective systems that enhance decision-making and reduce errors in handling potential harms.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- 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
- Technical background in full-stack or platform engineering
- Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users
- Experience working cross-functionally with non-engineering partners such as operations, policy, or legal teams
- Excellent communication skills to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
- A commitment to the societal impacts of AI and a desire to make powerful systems safer
Nice to have
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Experience building data labeling, trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse-prevention tooling
- Experience with systems handling sensitive or regulated data
- Experience working across multiple cloud providers or building provider-agnostic infrastructure
- A product-minded approach to internal users
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Collaborative office space
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies or programming languages mentioned
- Role involves significant cross-functional collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not guaranteed for every role
Summarised from Anthropic's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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