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Staff + Sr. Software Engineer in USA

  • Anthropic
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own backend services and infrastructure serving Claude across multiple cloud service providers.
  • Collaborate with internal engineering teams and cloud partners to launch serving stacks, resolve operational issues, and influence provider roadmaps.
  • Build validation and deployment pipelines that reliably ship new model versions across cloud platforms.
  • Develop cross-cloud interfaces and tooling abstractions to reduce platform complexity and optimize inference costs.
  • Contribute to capacity planning, autoscaling, workload routing, and geographic resource allocation.
  • Analyze observability data to identify performance bottlenecks, cost anomalies, and production regressions, then drive remediation.

Requirements

  • Significant software engineering experience building or operating high-performance, large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users.
  • Experience operating services on at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, with exposure to Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or container orchestration.
  • Curiosity about LLM serving; prior inference or machine learning experience is not required.
  • Experience collaborating with internal teams and external partners to align goals and deliver impact.
  • Ability to learn new technologies, hardware platforms, and cloud provider ecosystems quickly.
  • High autonomy and ownership of problems from end to end.
  • Preferred: experience scaling infrastructure or products across multiple cloud providers and navigating networking, security, privacy, billing, and managed services.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with capacity management, cost optimization, or resource planning across heterogeneous environments.
  • Preferred: understanding of multi-region deployments, geographic routing, and global traffic management.
  • Preferred: proficiency in Python or Rust.

Benefits

  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Competitive benefits including flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, optional equity donation matching, and office workspace.
  • Visa sponsorship is available with reasonable efforts made after an offer, subject to role and candidate limitations.
  • Anthropic provides immigration-lawyer support for visa matters.

Salary: $320k - $485k/yr

Anthropic

Anthropic builds AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable, with a commitment to ensuring their safety and benefit to users and society. Our work is driven by a dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and policy experts focused on the development of beneficial AI solutions.

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