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Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching

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about 6 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$320k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical direction for caching infrastructure used across Product and Research.
  • Design, build, and operate a managed Redis fleet that scales to support millions of users.
  • Build client libraries and developer-facing abstractions for correct caching.
  • Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation for data consistency.
  • Architect caching solutions across GCP, AWS, and other environments.
  • Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Build observability and tooling for cache behavior understanding.
  • Partner with product and research teams to enhance infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating production distributed systems.
  • Deep knowledge of caching architectures and invalidation strategies.
  • Experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores in production.
  • Proficiency in at least one systems programming language or Python at scale.
  • Track record of leading large, complex infrastructure projects.
  • Ability to balance speed with reliability needs of production systems.
  • Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Collaborative office space.