# Software Engineer, Identity & Access Controls

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $320k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Backend Systems, Identity Verification, Kyc/Kyb, Access Control, Authentication, Authorization, Fraud Detection, Account Takeover Detection
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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