Software Engineer, Sandboxing
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build the sandbox isolation layer powering every Claude code run and agent.
- Cut sandbox cold starts from seconds to milliseconds with snapshot restore.
- Scale untrusted agent workloads to vast concurrent sessions with fast isolation.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space to collaborate with colleagues
Ideal candidate
Low-level systems builder who thrives at the kernel boundary and cares deeply about safe, fast isolation. You enjoy debugging complex systems and shipping reliable infrastructure for AI agents at scale.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience in Linux systems programming, kernel development, or another low-level area
- Strong programming skills in at least one systems language such as Rust, C, C++, or Go
- Working knowledge of virtualization or container isolation technologies such as KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, gVisor, or runc
- Understanding of Linux resource management, including namespaces, cgroups, scheduling, and memory management
- Experience profiling and debugging performance issues at the system level
- Ability to work in unfamiliar codebases and technical areas, and to ship practical solutions with measurable results
- Strong communication skills and a commitment to building safe, reliable systems
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google