Staff+ Software Engineer, Product Sandboxing

About the Position

Staff+ Software Engineer, Product Sandboxing

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

We build and run the secure execution environment behind Claude's agentic capabilities. When Claude writes and runs code, browses the web, or uses a computer, that happens on infrastructure our team owns. We work at the intersection of systems engineering and security. The goal is to make untrusted code execution safe, fast, and reliable enough that product teams don't have to think about it. This is the layer between the model and the outside world, and it has to hold up at scale for every Anthropic product. We're hiring engineers who have experience building for containerized workloads and have a keen eye for building products used by millions of customers.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope complex, multi-month projects
• Drive cross-org alignment through ambiguous problem spaces
• Make architectural decisions that shape how Anthropic builds and scales its products
• Partner directly with research to productize cutting-edge capabilities
• Have lasting impact on the platform that hundreds of thousands of companies and internal/external engineers depend on every day

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems, ideally operating at tech lead level or equivalent
• Strong fundamentals in service-oriented architectures, networking, and systems design, ideally having owned both the technical vision and execution of a foundational platform system end to end
• Proficient in Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems languages
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and/or multi-cloud networking
• Take full ownership of your work-from design through deployment and operations
• Can navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions independently, and have ideally operated in 0 to 1 and more mature team or company settings
• Take a product-focused approach to platform work and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $405,000-$485,000 USD
• Location preference: NY, SEA, SF, or the Bay Area
• Hybrid work location policy: Expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
• Visa sponsorship: Available for eligible roles and candidates
• Comprehensive benefits package including optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours

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.

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