Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability

Anthropic
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Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$405k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build portable abstractions for storage, messaging, connectivity, and cross-cloud service operations.
  • Develop tooling that enables internal teams to provision, configure, and operate services across cloud providers through a consistent interface.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of Claude on third-party cloud platforms, including build, release, and validation pipelines.
  • Collaborate with cloud partners and internal Compute, Inference, Security, and infrastructure teams on integrations, platform issues, and roadmap needs.
  • Lead cross-team technical projects, establish multi-cloud engineering patterns, and review designs for portability implications.
  • Mentor engineers across the organization on multi-cloud architecture and patterns.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and design postmortems, runbooks, and incident-response processes.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems.
  • Experience owning large-scale infrastructure systems and leading ambiguous, cross-team technical projects from design through production.
  • Experience running the same production workload across multiple cloud providers, including migration or abstraction work.
  • Understanding of cloud IAM models and networking primitives such as VPC peering, private connectivity, and service mesh.
  • Production programming experience in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Go, or Rust.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Understanding of ML infrastructure and supporting interconnects.
  • Experience shipping software through hyperscaler marketplaces or managed-model platforms.
  • Background in security, compliance, or data residency for regulated or sovereign cloud environments.
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field or demonstrated through relevant coursework, training, or professional experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration-lawyer support.
  • Competitive benefits include generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
  • Optional equity donation matching is offered.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no application deadline.
Anthropic

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.