# Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2d7f6309-1ee3-4c1d-b9c1-d389c9f2152e

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 405000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

Join Anthropic as a foundational privacy engineer establishing the privacy function for frontier AI systems, designing and implementing privacy-preserving architectures from the ground up. This senior individual contributor role combines privacy engineering, AI safety, and distributed systems work to embed privacy protections into large-scale AI training and inference systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Governance, Federated Learning, Go, Python

## Required

- Production experience with privacy engineering principles including privacy by design, data minimization, and purpose limitation
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages with production systems at scale experience
- Experience designing and implementing privacy infrastructure for large-user-base systems
- Data governance, classification, or data lifecycle management experience
- Understanding of GDPR and CCPA with ability to translate legal requirements into technical designs
- Experience conducting privacy reviews, threat modeling, or risk assessments
- Written and verbal communication skills for alignment across engineering, research, legal, and product teams

## Nice to have

- Hands-on experience with privacy-enhancing technologies like differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure enclaves, or secure multi-party computation
- Privacy infrastructure or controls for machine learning or AI systems
- Experience establishing a privacy engineering practice or as an early hire in a function
- Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure at scale experience
- Technical lead experience on complex multi-quarter projects
- Contributions to open-source privacy tooling, privacy research, or industry standards
- 12+ years in software engineering with large-scale infrastructure experience
- 3+ years leading large, complex projects as a technical lead

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5383114008