Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems

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.