2 months ago
Base Salary
$405k - $485k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate durable session and event storage, sandbox orchestration, streaming, scheduling, and multi-tenant isolation for long-running agents.
- Evolve the agent harness, including tool routing, context management, memory, error recovery, and evaluation infrastructure.
- Ship agent platform capabilities such as outcome-driven execution, multi-agent orchestration, memory, observability, and tracing.
- Design stable, developer-friendly APIs, SDK interfaces, CLI experiences, versioning strategies, defaults, and escape hatches.
- Own systems from ideation and API design through implementation, deployment, production operations, on-call, and iteration.
- Partner with research, product, developer experience, and go-to-market teams on new platform capabilities and product strategy.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of practical experience as a backend, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineer.
- Experience building and operating stateful, long-running, or high-throughput production systems such as workflow orchestration, streaming, storage, container orchestration, or job orchestration.
- Strong understanding of durability, consistency, failure modes, reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.
- Strong product sense and API design skills, with the ability to execute product strategy in ambiguous domains with cross-functional partners.
- Experience taking ownership from design and implementation through deployment, operations, on-call, and improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Experience building an agent harness, agent framework, LLM orchestration layer, AI/ML platform, LLM evaluation infrastructure, durable execution or workflow engine, sandboxed code execution system, container runtime, or public developer platform is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual compensation is provided separately in the salary field.
- Hybrid policy currently expects staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible roles and candidates, with immigration-lawyer support.
- Benefits include competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
- Preference is given to candidates based in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, or the Bay Area.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.
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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.