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Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$485k
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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
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