Staff+ Software Engineer (Enterprise)

Anthropic Limited
New York, NY, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Software as a Service Cloud Computing Software Design Documents Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Cloud Services Prometheus Rust (Programming Language) Datadog
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Google Cloud Grafana Kubernetes Api Design Golang

Job description

  • Define and drive multi-year technical strategy, including our distributability and multi-cloud strategy
  • Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams
  • Serve as one of the primary technical decision-makers for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope
  • Partner other teams such as Inference and Platform for foundational systems; Customer Success for the voice of customers, with Infrastructure and Safeguards for security, privacy, and responsible deployment
  • Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers across the org
  • Drive alignment across Product, GTM, Customer Success, and beyond while proactively identifying and addressing systemic technical risks
  • Technical Stack:
  • Languages: Python, Golang, Rust
  • Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes
  • Databases: PostgreSQL (AlloyDB), Vector Stores, Firestore, Spanner
  • Tools: Feature Flagging, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Claude Code

Requirements

  • Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
  • Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Drive the highest-leverage technical outcomes without formal authority-you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust
  • Have deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths
  • Bring strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity
  • Have demonstrably shaped technical strategy for large-scale Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise SaaS companies
  • Have 10+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or Senior Staff level
  • Are highly effective across org boundaries-you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike
  • We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you’re interested in this work

Benefits & conditions

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
  • 22 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Flexible paid time off and absence policies
  • Mental health support for you and your dependents
  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
  • Retirement plans with competitive matching
  • Life and income protection plans
  • $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
  • Commuter benefits
  • Annual education stipend
  • Home office stipends
  • Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
  • Daily meals and snacks in the office

About the company

  • We’re looking for a Staff+ Engineer to anchor our Enterprise pillar-the team that makes Claude enterprise-ready at scale
  • When a Fortune 500 company wants to roll out Claude to 100,000 employees, the systems and products that you design are what make it possible
  • This is a high-agency role that spans multiple efforts within Enterprise
  • You’ll design Claude Enterprise to be widely distributed, support our governance and connectivity story, design abstractions that other teams want to adopt, help the team evaluate tradeoffs, and be the engineer in the room who can interface with executives from the world’s largest companies

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