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# Staff Software Engineer Platform Connectivity

- **Company:** Humanloop
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £57,000.0 - £73,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Linux, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Software Tools, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Backend
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5856707171

## About the Role

* Experience as a backend or platform engineer
 * Familiarity with using AI tools as part of the software development process
 * A product-focused approach to platform work, with an emphasis on building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
 * Full ownership of work from design through build, deployment, operations, and iterative improvement
 * Ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions independently, ideally in both 0-1 and more mature team or company settings
 * Experience operating production distributed systems, with an understanding of reliability, observability, and incident response at scale
 * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build consensus across teams and time zones
 * Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
 * A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

## Description

* Design, build, and operate the core connectivity infrastructure behind external tool calls, including the MCP proxy and the OAuth and token management systems
 * Own reliability for infrastructure that other teams and external partners depend on, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems
 * Build admin controls and permission models that let enterprise IT govern what agents can do
 * Contribute to the MCP standard and its ecosystem, including the spec and the official Python and TypeScript SDKs
 * Turn ambiguous outcomes into shipped, scoped work and dogfood what we build in the products that consume it
 * Independently scope complex, multi-month projects and drive cross-org alignment through ambiguous problem spaces
 * Make architectural decisions that shape how Anthropic builds and scales its products
 * Partner directly with research to productize cutting-edge capabilities

Technologies:

 * AI
 * API
 * Backend
 * Claude Code
 * MCP
 * OAuth
 * Python
 * TypeScript
 * Linux


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