Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise (Platform)

About the Position

We are looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise (Platform) to join our team at Anthropic. This role is pivotal in making our AI systems enterprise-ready at scale. You will be instrumental in designing the foundational systems that enable large-scale deployments of our AI models, ensuring they meet the rigorous demands of enterprise environments.

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. We believe in the importance of safety and ethical implications of AI, and strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year technical strategy for foundational enterprise systems, including our distributability and multi-cloud direction.
• Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Serve as a primary technical decision-maker for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope.
• Design the platform primitives-identity, permissions, governance, connectivity, and usage data-that other product teams build on.
• Partner with teams such as Inference and Platform on foundational systems, Customer Success for the voice of the customer, and Infrastructure and Safeguards on security, privacy, and responsible deployment.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers across the org, and drive alignment across Product, GTM, and Customer Success while proactively addressing systemic technical risks.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or equivalent technical leadership level.
• Have deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths.
• Have shaped technical strategy at a Cloud Service Provider or large-scale Enterprise SaaS company.
• Bring strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity.
• Drive the highest-leverage technical outcomes without formal authority-you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust.
• Are highly effective across org boundaries-you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $405,000 - $485,000 USD per year.
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas! If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

How We're Different

At Anthropic, we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. We value impact-advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI-rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Come Work with Us!

If you're interested in building your career at Anthropic, we encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work.

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