Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data

New York, NY · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$320,000 – $485,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This systems engineering role leads the data infrastructure powering Anthropic's AI safety systems, designing pipelines and storage that route sensitive user data while maintaining privacy and compliance. It suits engineers with deep systems expertise who've built fault-tolerant platforms at scale and want to shape a nascent team's technical direction in high-stakes safety work.

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Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Strong systems fundamentals including processes, threads, RPC, storage, and failure modes
Built and operated large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems
Built and operated systems handling sensitive or high-value data with access, privacy, retention and security controls
Built platforms or internal tooling widely adopted by other teams
Led technical design of projects spanning multiple engineers or teams
Learn quickly and adapt to ambiguity, pace, and unfamiliar systems or languages
Care about AI safety impact and communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical partners

Nice to have

Proficiency in one or more systems languages (C, C++, Rust, Go)
8+ years of software engineering experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
Experience building data infrastructure for ML including training datasets or offline batch inference
Experience with data governance in regulated or high-sensitivity domains
Fluency with agentic coding tools like Claude