Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data

Job summary

Responsibilities

Claude serves millions of individual users alongside enterprise clients. Safeguards Engineering develops the foundational infrastructure that ensures its safe use: robust access controls, active abuse detection, real-time probes and classifiers within the inference pipeline, offline monitoring for…

• Design, build, and operate the stores, pipelines, schemas, and APIs that Safeguards' detection, evaluation, investigation, and review systems read from.
• Build privacy-safe interfaces that allow ML training, evaluation, and investigation workflows to utilize sensitive data without requiring broad access to raw records, ensuring…
• Scale the distributed storage, ingestion, and processing systems operated by Safeguards, maintaining cost efficiency, reliability, and portability across deployment environments.
• Collaborate with investigators, researchers, legal, privacy, and security teams to translate operational requirements into functional mechanisms and systems for safe data…
• Uphold a high operational bar by participating in the on-call rotation, leading incident reviews, and continuously reducing manual operational overhead.

What they're looking for

• Have strong systems fundamentals (processes, threads, RPC, storage, and how systems fail) and have built and operated large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Have built and operated systems that handle sensitive or high-value data, with access, privacy, retention and security controls designed in from the start
• Have a track record of building platforms or internal tooling that other teams widely adopt
• Have led the technical design of projects that span several engineers or teams
• Learn quickly and adapt: you're comfortable with ambiguity, a fast pace, and systems or languages you haven't used before

Tech stack

• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• C++
• Rust
• Go