Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure

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2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$320k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build sandboxed compute environments for safe code execution, tool access, and interaction with external services.
  • Build state-management systems for long-running agent tasks with checkpointing, recovery, and resumption across failures.
  • Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access on behalf of users.
  • Create observability and debugging tools to understand agent execution and improve system behavior.
  • Partner with product and research teams to define and ship agentic capabilities.
  • Shape architecture for greenfield infrastructure and help improve Claude’s reliability and delivery velocity.

Requirements

  • Experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at scale.
  • Experience building cloud-native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Experience with containers, sandboxing, or secure execution environments such as gVisor, Firecracker, or V8 isolates.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar language.
  • Care about security, isolation, and systems that fail safely.
  • Preferred: experience with multi-tenant execution platforms or serverless infrastructure.
  • Preferred: background in security engineering, sandboxing, or isolation technologies.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Temporal, Airflow, or Step Functions.
  • Preferred: experience with state machines, checkpointing, or durable execution patterns.
  • Preferred: low-level systems experience including Linux internals, eBPF, or container runtimes.
  • A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience is required.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range of $320,000-$485,000 USD.
  • 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, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
Anthropic

About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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