# Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Skills: Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5424404008

## Description

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 
 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. You will apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and oversight while enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies.
 Responsibilities: 
• 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
• Stand up and run deployments of those monitoring systems across multiple clouds, including inside cloud-provider partner environments where data residency laws apply. Keep the deployments consistent through shared deployment pipelines, smoke tests, observability, and alerting
• Design and harden the sandboxed runtime that AI agents execute in: 

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