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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # software engineer - **Company:** Anthropic's Mission - **Location:** New York, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $320,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Computer Networks, Data Security, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Data Management - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-distributed-systems-anthropic-3-10086482 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience * Proficiency in Python, Distributed Systems, and Infrastructure as Code * Have worked across multiple cloud providers, or built infrastructure designed to be provider-agnostic * Have built and operated large-scale, distributed infrastructure, such as data platforms, control planes, or job schedulers * Have experience with sandboxing and isolation technologies (containers, microVMs, network policy) or with a systems language such as Rust * Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders Strong candidates may also: * 8+ years of experience in a software engineering position * Have built systems that handle sensitive or regulated data, with requirements around access control, auditability, retention, and data residency * Have experience running LLM-based agents in production * Have experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation, Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. ## Description 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 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., * 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 must stay in place. Keep the deployments consistent through shared deployment pipelines, smoke tests, observability, and alerting * 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 ## Related Videos - [Resilient by Design: Building Robust Architectures in High-Stakes Financial Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2106-resilient-by-design-building-robust-architectures-in-high-stakes-financial-systems) - [Crypto-secure Data Management with In-Database Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/632-crypto-secure-data-management-with-in-database-blockchain) - [One year of the CO2-challenge – insights and lessons learned](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100251-one-year-of-the-co2-challenge-insights-and-lessons-learned) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [No Keys for the Robot: GitOps as the Control Plane for Autonomous Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100095-no-keys-for-the-robot-gitops-as-the-control-plane-for-autonomous-agents) - [Your next 10x engineer isn't in your city. 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