Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$405k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build provider-agnostic abstractions letting Claude run on any cloud at scale.
- Ship Claude onto partner clouds with repeatable delivery pipelines end to end.
- Make 'which cloud is this on?' a question engineers never ask.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space
Ideal candidate
A seasoned infrastructure leader who thrives on ambiguous, cross-team systems work and cares deeply about safe, beneficial AI. You love making complex multi-cloud platforms invisible to other engineers.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years building and operating production distributed systems
- Own large-scale infrastructure systems and lead ambiguous cross-team projects from design to production
- Run the same production workload across multiple cloud providers including migration or abstraction work
- Understand how cloud IAM models and networking primitives differ across providers
- Write production code in at least one general-purpose programming language
- Work confidently with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
- Understand ML infrastructure and supporting interconnects
- Ship software through hyperscaler marketplaces or managed-model platforms
- Background in security, compliance, or data residency for regulated or sovereign clouds
- Care about societal impacts and Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- remote policy
- At least 25% time in office, with some roles requiring more time
- visa sponsorship
- We do sponsor visas, but not for every role and every candidate
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