Anthropic

Staff Software Engineer, Web Platform

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14 days ago

Base Salary

$320k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve developer velocity by reducing friction in build, deployment, and testing pipelines.
  • Identify and resolve latency issues, improve observability, and establish reliability standards for platform systems.
  • Design and build shared UI components, libraries, and reusable abstractions for web and mobile product teams.
  • Evolve backend-for-frontend APIs and client-server architecture patterns for client applications.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to understand needs, unblock development, and guide platform investments.
  • Maintain documentation and tooling that help engineers use and contribute to the platform.

Requirements

  • Strong practical skills in modern web technologies, including React and TypeScript or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience designing or consuming APIs that serve frontend applications.
  • A track record of building systems that improve developer productivity and developer experience.
  • Strong instincts and practical experience around reliability, observability, performance, and production systems.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners in a fast-paced environment.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant work on shared platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure.
  • Preferred: experience with shared component libraries, design systems, reusable UI infrastructure, API design, client-server architecture, production web performance optimization, CI/CD, build systems, deployment automation, observability, and monitoring.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range is $320,000–$405,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy currently requires staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship is available, with reasonable efforts and immigration-lawyer support for candidates receiving offers.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space are offered.

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About Anthropic

501-1,000 employees

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

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