Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Sampling Path

Highlights

• Operate production services powering Claude's safety systems on token path.
• Keep p99 latency flat as traffic grows across every Claude platform.
• Ship safely to hot path that cannot go down with fast rollbacks.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

Seasoned backend owner who thrives on high-stakes, low-latency systems and graceful degradation. You care about reliability, fast safe shipping, and mentoring while keeping users waiting milliseconds less.

Requirements

• Designed, built, and operated high QPS systems at global scale with production accountability
• Strong foundation in distributed systems including replication, consistency tradeoffs, failure modes and SLOs
• Design systems for graceful degradation under slow dependencies or partial failures
• Shipped broad changes to mission-critical systems such as migrations or rewrites
• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience