Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform

Anthropic
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5 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$405k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and optimize developer infrastructure, including development environments, observability systems, and deployment pipelines.
  • Build and maintain core service infrastructure, shared libraries, service mesh systems, and reliable deployment platforms.
  • Develop cloud-agnostic tooling, cross-cloud networking, and multiregion deployment infrastructure.
  • Build identity and authentication systems supporting authorization, role-based access control, and single sign-on.
  • Develop connectivity infrastructure including the MCP proxy, OAuth and token management, enterprise administration controls, and official Python and TypeScript SDKs.
  • Transform the Claude API into a cloud-native managed product deployable across customer cloud providers and Anthropic infrastructure.
  • Build training systems and production ML pipelines that adapt Claude to specific customer workloads.
  • Independently scope complex multi-month projects, make architectural decisions, partner with research and product teams, and drive cross-organizational alignment.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of practical full-stack engineering experience, ideally including 2+ years operating at a Staff or equivalent technical leadership level.
  • Experience designing and delivering complex consumer or B2B user-facing products across the full stack.
  • Technical expertise in modern frontend and backend development, including depth with languages and frameworks such as React and TypeScript.
  • Experience working in early-stage startups or other rapidly evolving environments, ideally building products from 0 to 1.
  • Experience driving cross-team or cross-organizational alignment and establishing engineering standards, component architectures, and development practices.
  • Strong candidates may have led foundational platform systems, scaled billing or payments infrastructure, built enterprise identity and access management systems, worked with ML/AI systems or LLM inference, designed multicloud architectures, or designed APIs focused on developer experience and reliability.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range of $405,000–$485,000 USD.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
  • Hybrid policy currently requires staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more in-office time.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for eligible roles and candidates.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no stated 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.