Staff+ Software Engineer, Account AbuseActive$320K

The opportunity

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…

What you'll do

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • 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