Staff+ Software Engineer (AI Platform Portability)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA. Hybrid policy requires staff to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time. Preference is given to candidates based in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, or the Bay Area.

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD

Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including Claude.

What you will do

• Design and build provider-agnostic abstractions for storage, messaging, connectivity, and service operations across multiple clouds.
• Create consistent tooling for internal teams to provision, configure, and operate cross-cloud services.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of Claude on partner cloud platforms, including build, release, and validation pipelines.
• Work with cloud partners and internal Compute, Inference, and Security teams to develop integrations, resolve platform issues, and influence provider roadmaps.
• Shape multi-cloud engineering patterns through design reviews, technical guidance, mentoring, and cross-team alignment.
• Participate in on-call rotation and improve postmortems, runbooks, and incident response.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Experience owning large-scale infrastructure and leading ambiguous, cross-team technical projects from design through production.
• Experience running production workloads across multiple cloud providers, including migration or abstraction work.
• Knowledge of cloud IAM, VPC peering, private connectivity, service mesh, ML infrastructure, and supporting interconnects.
• Production programming experience in Python, Go, Rust, or another general-purpose language, plus Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience; relevant field of study or demonstrated professional expertise.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping software through hyperscaler marketplaces or managed-model platforms.
• Background in security, compliance, data residency, regulated environments, or sovereign cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Claude or other AI platform infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on safe, beneficial, steerable, and trustworthy AI.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration lawyer support, although sponsorship depends on the role and candidate.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; there is no application deadline.
• Candidate AI usage is subject to Anthropic’s application-process policy.