Skip to content
AnthropicAnthropicSan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

Build identity verification, access control, and monitoring systems for trusted access to advanced AI capabilities. Requires backend experience, Python/SQL proficiency, and 6+ years of experience.

320k – 405k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who individual and business customers are
  • Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities based on approved use cases
  • Build infrastructure to configure safety systems and detection thresholds on a per-customer basis for trusted access programs
  • Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access, and tooling that enables enforcement teams to act on it
  • Detect and remediate account takeover
  • Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors
  • Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin tooling
  • Work closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, and go-to-market teams to ensure access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
  • Experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Care about the societal impacts of AI and want work to make powerful systems safer

Preferred Qualifications

  • 6+ years of industry software engineering experience
  • Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale
  • Experience with KYC/KYB workflows or identity verification vendors
  • Experience in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection
  • Experience detecting and responding to account takeover or credential compromise
  • Experience partnering with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Skills

PythonSQLBackend SystemsIdentity VerificationKyc/KybAccess ControlAuthenticationAuthorizationFraud DetectionAccount Takeover Detection
Paradigm

Senior Software Engineer

ParadigmSan Francisco, CA

Senior engineer building distributed LLM agent infrastructure. Requires 7+ years experience designing and deploying production distributed services.

300k – 400k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Backend Software Engineer, API Multicloud

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Backend engineer building and extending OpenAI's API platform into cloud-native environments like AWS, creating cloud-contained developer products and agentic infrastructure. Requires 7+ years experience and proficiency in backend languages and distributed systems.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Build and scale orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for long-running cloud agents powering Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API. Requires 9+ years experience leading large-scale backend or infrastructure projects.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid9+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Software Engineer, API SDK

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +2

Build and maintain OpenAI's official SDKs across Python, Node.js, Go, Java, and Ruby. Shape developer experience for new API features and drive SDK strategy and automation.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Senior Software Engineer, Product

OpenAIBellevue, WA +1

Designs and builds experimentation and rollout infrastructure for safe feature launches and model evaluations at scale. Partners with product, research, and data teams to integrate systems into development lifecycles, focusing on developer experience and large-scale distributed systems.

293k – 324k/yr
HybridBackend Engineering