5 hours ago
Base Salary
$320k - $485k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend systems processing every token on Claude’s generation path.
- Own latency and reliability end to end, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and postmortems.
- Ship hot-path changes through canaried and gradual rollouts with latency and error-budget gating and fast rollbacks.
- Optimize tail latency and keep costs flat as traffic, models, and per-request checks grow.
- Set technical direction, lead design reviews, make trade-offs with inference and research teams, mentor engineers, and improve operational standards.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-QPS systems at global scale with production accountability for incidents, outages, and remediation.
- Strong distributed-systems foundation, including replication, consistency trade-offs, failure modes, and SLO management under load.
- Ability to design for graceful degradation when dependencies slow down, streams drop, or deployments are partially rolled out.
- Experience shipping broad or all-encompassing changes to mission-critical systems, such as database migrations, interface changes, or rewrites.
- Strong candidates may have 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Familiarity with LLM inference systems and transformer-based models is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $320,000—$485,000 USD.
- Visa sponsorship is offered, with successful sponsorship dependent on the role and candidate; Anthropic retains an immigration lawyer to assist.
- Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.
- Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
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.