Staff Software Engineer, Account Abuse

Build systems to detect and prevent account abuse, ensuring fair resource allocation.

• •The Account Abuse team is tasked with ensuring Anthropic’s computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from coming back.
• •As a software engineer on this team, you will build systems that gather and analyze signals at scale, balancing tradeoffs and coordinating closely with stakeholder teams throughout the company.
• •Key Responsibilities Ability to think and respond quickly in a rapidly-changing greenfield environment Jumping into other teams’ code to identify key points to gather signals or introduce interventions with minimal impact on their systems’ stability, complexity, or overall architecture Integration with third-party data-enrichment vendors Creating monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX Lead root cause analyses and deep-dive investigations into account activity to identify abuse patterns, uncover emerging attack vectors, and inform both immediate enforcement actions and longer-term systemic defenses Requirements Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools.
• •Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders 8+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships and co-ops), preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection.