# Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5424404008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-staff-software-engineer-distributed-systems/

## About the role

We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being. This role will focus on building distributed and scalable systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models.

## What they're looking for

- Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
- Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions, surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review
- Design and harden the sandboxed runtime that AI agents execute in: isolation, network egress controls, least-privilege data access, audit logging, and insider-risk controls
- Manage cost and capacity for large volumes of long-running agent work, and set and meet service-level objectives for the platform
- Partner with the engineers and researchers who write and evaluate the monitoring agents, and with security, privacy, and legal teams, so new detection work can ship quickly on a platform everyone trusts

Tags: Safeguards (Trust & Safety)

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