Staff Software Engineer, Anthropic
Product Infrastructure
$405-485k
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AI safety and research company
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AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$405-485k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of experience building and scaling infrastructure systems
- Possess deep expertise in at least one of: OLTP database scaling, Kubernetes/container orchestration, or distributed networking
- Have successfully scaled infrastructure through massive growth at high-growth companies
- Can balance the speed of a startup environment with the reliability needs of production systems
- Excel at technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration
- Are passionate about building the infrastructure layer that enables next-gen AI products
- Prior AI/ML infrastructure experience is not required. We value deep infrastructure expertise from any domain
- Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Deep expertise scaling PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, or similar database systems
- Experience with Redis, Temporal, RAG databases, or async job processing frameworks
- Experience building multi-cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions
- Expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, and container orchestration at scale
What the job involves
- We're looking for experienced infrastructure engineers to build and scale the foundation that powers Claude and enables millions of users to interact with AI
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Product Infrastructure team, you'll architect and build the reliable infrastructure primitives that power our API, Claude.ai, Claude Mobile, Claude Code, and future AI products
- This is a unique opportunity to tackle infrastructure challenges at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and massive scale
- You'll architect systems that handle billions of API requests, build compute infrastructure that bridges research and production environments, and create storage solutions that work seamlessly across GCP, AWS, and diverse deployment models including first-party and third-party environments
- Design and implement infrastructure solutions that scale to support millions of users interacting with Claude across multiple products
- Build and scale OLTP database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance
- Architect storage solutions that work seamlessly across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, third-party deployments, and other environments
- Develop Kubernetes-based compute infrastructure and service mesh solutions for our growing product ecosystem
- Extend research infrastructure capabilities for production use, enabling rapid deployment of new AI capabilities
- Partner with product teams to understand requirements and build infrastructure that accelerates feature delivery
- Collaborate with research infrastructure teams to create synergies and shared solutions
- Make critical build vs. buy decisions for infrastructure components
- Set technical direction for product infrastructure
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.3)
Trustpilot (1.6)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2025
$3.5bn
SERIES E
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $16.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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