Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

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. The ideal candidate can see things from opponents’ perspectives, understand their means and motives, and anticipate their responses to countermeasures.

What it asks for · 3

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Also a plus

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships and co-ops), preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection.
• Have experience building trust and safety mechanisms for and using AI/ML systems, such as fraud-detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale
• Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

What the job covers

• 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
• Working closely with our data scientists to maintain situational awareness of our current usage patterns and trends, and with our Policy & Enforcement team to maximize the impact of their human-review availability
• Building robust and reliable multi-layered defenses
• 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

Degree language

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• systems4×
• abuse3×
• closely3×
• experience3×
• account2×
• build2×
• building2×
• data2×
• defenses2×
• enforcement2×
• gather2×
• identify2×
• impact2×
• internal2×
• monitoring2×
• patterns2×

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