About the Position

Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

Anthropic trains and serves Claude across multiple cloud providers and accelerator platforms. The Platform Portability team owns the abstractions, tooling, and deployment infrastructure that make this possible without every engineering and research team needing to become experts in different clouds.

As an engineer on Platform Portability, you'll design and build the systems that let us bring up new capacity, ship our platform to cloud provider platforms & marketplaces, and move workloads between providers with confidence. You'll work closely with our cloud partners on capabilities we need that don't exist yet, and with internal Compute, Inference, and Security teams to make "which cloud is this running on?" a question most engineers at Anthropic never have to ask. Your work directly determines how quickly and reliably we can put safe, frontier AI in front of users - wherever they are.

Responsibilities

Portable infrastructure: Design and build provider-agnostic abstractions for storage, messaging, and connectivity. Provision, configure, and operate services across clouds through one consistent interface. Eliminate provider-specific assumptions in the codebase.
Claude on partner clouds: Own the delivery of shipping Claude onto third-party cloud platforms. Manage build, release, and validation pipelines. Collaborate with cloud partners and internal stakeholders to implement features, debug issues, and influence roadmaps. Ensure consistent platform behavior across all providers.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems.
Experience owning large-scale infrastructure systems and leading ambiguous, cross-team technical projects from design through production.
Experience running the same production workload across multiple cloud providers, including migration or abstraction work.
Understanding of how cloud IAM models and networking primitives (VPC peering, private connectivity, service mesh) differ across providers.
Proficiency in writing production code in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust).
Confidence in working with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
Knowledge of ML infrastructure and supporting interconnects.
Experience shipping software through hyperscaler marketplaces or managed-model platforms.
Background in security, compliance, or data residency for regulated or sovereign cloud environments.
Commitment to the societal impacts of your work and Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI.

We Offer

Competitive annual salary range: $405,000-$485,000 USD.
Location preference for candidates based in NY, SEA, SF, or the Bay Area.
Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates.
Comprehensive benefits package, including generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in San Francisco.

How We're Different

At Anthropic, we focus on high-impact AI research, working as a cohesive team on large-scale efforts. We value impact and collaboration, viewing AI research as an empirical science. We host frequent research discussions to ensure we are pursuing the highest-impact work. Communication skills are highly valued.

Come Work with Us!

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.

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Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability

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