Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Distribution (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time. Preference is given to candidates based in New York or the Bay Area.

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude platform.

What you will do

• Build the Claude Platform as a cloud-native managed product across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Anthropic infrastructure.
• Integrate the Claude API, control plane, and Anthropic features into cloud service provider platforms.
• Develop enterprise capabilities including key management, encryption, audit APIs, usage visibility, access control, and international data residency.
• Lead large-scale infrastructure projects from design through production and operations.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Systems, Networking, Databases, Inference, and cloud provider teams.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems.
• Experience operating at a technical lead level or equivalent and independently leading ambiguous, cross-team projects.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure at scale using GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Enterprise SaaS experience in multi-tenant environments, ideally involving security, compliance, data residency, regulated customers, or sovereign clouds.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar systems language.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and professional experience in a relevant field.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on high-impact AI research and trustworthy AI systems.
• Flexible working hours and an office-based hybrid work policy.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and benefits with optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, although eligibility depends on the role and candidate.