2 hours ago
Base Salary
$1 - $2/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic’s storage layers.
- Understand user access patterns and security, usability, and business requirements across ML training, data processing, and other workloads.
- Partner with cloud service providers, networking, and datacenter teams on infrastructure primitives.
- Translate user needs into scalable system designs and drive technical alignment.
- Make tradeoffs across durability, availability, consistency, performance, security, and cost, and document the decisions.
- Lead cross-functional teams and large migrations of critical workloads with minimal user disruption.
- Develop consistent interfaces across backend stacks, abstraction layers, clients, and varying infrastructures and regions.
- Improve operations through SLOs, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call practices.
- Remain hands-on in code and production, including critical and complex systems.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating a large-scale distributed storage system in production, such as an object store, distributed file system, or block storage service.
- Deep understanding of replication, erasure coding, consistency models, metadata management, durability, failure handling, high availability, access controls, identity models, security, abstraction layers, networking, and multi-region systems.
- Experience owning or serving as a technical lead or architect for a large, complex infrastructure system used by organizations and customers.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability in at least one systems language, such as C++, Rust, Go, or Java.
- Experience operating and steering critical infrastructure at scale, including security, on-call, incident response, capacity planning, customer support, and cost efficiency.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience driving technical alignment across multiple organizations and stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field or through relevant coursework, training, or professional experience.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $1—$2 USD.
- Visa sponsorship is offered with reasonable efforts made after an offer, though successful sponsorship is not possible for every role and candidate.
- Hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
- Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
About Anthropic
Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.