Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead multi-month infrastructure projects from ambiguous ideas to production systems.
- Build monitoring systems to detect misuse and surface insights for manual review.
- Design hardened sandboxed runtime where AI agents execute with audit logging.
What they offer
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A seasoned infrastructure leader who thrives on ambiguous, high-impact problems and cares deeply about AI safety, transparency, and building platforms others trust.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
- Proficiency in Python, Distributed Systems, and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience across multiple cloud providers or provider-agnostic infrastructure
- Built and operated large-scale distributed infrastructure
- Experience with sandboxing and isolation technologies or a systems language such as Rust
- Strong communication skills explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- remote policy
- In office at least 25% of the time
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