Job brief: Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Human Review Tooling

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• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-05.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Anthropic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $320,000 to $485,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA · San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-07-13 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• Stand up and run deployments of this tooling across multiple clouds, including inside cloud-provider partner environments where data must stay in place.
• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
• 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

Conditions

• 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.

Main duties

• Build investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for both first-party and third-party platform surfaces — including case queues, investigation views, dec…
• Develop the platform layer of reusable APIs, data storage, and backend services that lets new review workflows be stood up quickly and safely
• Stand up and run deployments of this tooling across multiple clouds, including inside cloud-provider partner environments where data must stay in place. Keep…
• Scale review through automation, including enabling reviewers to use Claude effectively and building toward Claude-assisted and Claude-driven review workflows
• Partner with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable, well-designed …

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in New York, NY: $217k a year (222 listings, 24 employers). This listing is 86% higher.
• Across Anthropic's 547 open listings, 54% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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