Data Engineer · Mid · Anthropic

the posting, the skills it asks for, and the plan to get there

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Security Data Engineer

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CAMid · RemoteRelocation / visa support in the postingData Engineerposted 11 d ago

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Skills, with evidence

  • Data modelling
    Have integrated with systems you did not control (inventory tools, ticketing systems, vendor APIs) and built data models that outlive any one sourcemust have
  • Data quality
    Data quality: build coverage checks, reconciliation against sources and alerts on a silent or drifting feed, so a wrong or missing record is caught the same day; own retention and access controls on the recordsmust have
  • SQL
    Write SQL and at least one general-purpose programming language wellmust have
  • Streaming
    Have designed and run production data systems (relational schemas, change data capture, batch or streaming pipelines and the services around them) and kept them correctmust have
  • Airflow / orchestration
    build the pipelines, stores and tools, and run what you ship
  • Failure handling
    Security at that scale runs on data, and you'll be the engineer who owns it and the systems that produce it: component-level hardware inventory and chain of custody, fed by software that runs at our sites and on hosts, and continuous control monitoring, with the posture calculations that decide what each site is cleared to run.
  • Governance & security
    Continuous control monitoring and posture: own the pipelines that turn check outcomes, assessment results and findings into per-control and per-site measures over time, against the compliance frameworks we and our partners are assessed against, and the posture calculation that decides what a site is cleared to runnot practised here
  • Incremental loads
    Have designed and run production data systems (relational schemas, change data capture, batch or streaming pipelines and the services around them) and kept them correct: coverage measured, records reconciled against the source, alerts on silence, and a design that expects records to get corrupted or lost
  • Warehousing
    Experience with asset management, supply chain or warehouse systems where serialized tracking and custody transfer are the core problem

Your plan

  1. The SQL screen: correct, then fast

    Data quality · SQL

    ≈ 1 h
  2. Data modelling: the round most people fail

    Data modelling · Warehousing

    ≈ 2 h
  3. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Streaming · Airflow / orchestration · Failure handling · Incremental loads

    ≈ 3 h
  4. ≈ 1 h
15 drills · Foundations + Intermediate≈ 6 hours

Not covered by the plan: Governance & security.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

leaves in 2 dremoved the moment Anthropic closes it

Security Data Engineer at Anthropic: skills and prep plan · D8LooP