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# Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code

- **Company:** Anthropic Limited
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Prompt Engineering, Containerization, Kubernetes, Codebase, Automation Anywhere
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_84b989a8275fad4455756097d1ac90b2

## About the Role

* Are excited about AI-assisted coding as a tool to enhance developer productivity and creativity-not replace human ingenuity
 * Spend a lot of time refining and customizing your AI workflows
 * Have experience building and maintaining dev tools
 * Are an expert in React development, including performance optimization, modern patterns (hooks, context, suspense), and component architecture
 * Specialize in user experience engineering but are a capable full stack developer
 * Have hands-on experience working with large language models and prompt engineering
 * Have worked on projects with stringent safety, security and/or compliance requirements
 * Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work
 * Have 6+ years of work experience

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With

 * Building and maintaining CLI tools
 * Working in large codebases and quickly jumping in to unfamiliar development environments
 * Working with container orchestration and cloud infrastructure
 * Scaling TypeScript projects
 * Working with alternate JavaScript runtimes like Bun and Deno, 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

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

## Description

* Design, build, and maintain scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered development tools
 * Engage directly with developers inside and outside Anthropic to gather insights and improve user experience
 * Collaborate with researchers to improve model capabilities through shared tools and evals
 * Stay ahead of advancements in AI-assisted coding by experimenting with new tools, evaluating emerging techniques, and tracking enhancements to existing ones
 * Contribute across the stack-from front-end UI to back-end infrastructure-to develop new features, fix bugs, and optimize performance
 * Dive into possibly unfamiliar areas like Python notebooks, VS Code plug-ins, and containerized environments.