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# Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise (Platform)

- **Company:** Anthropic Limited
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software as a Service, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Multi-Cloud, Api Design
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_a84443c9720746fa2caf56a6039dc873

## About the Role

* Have 8+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or equivalent technical leadership level
 * Have deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths
 * Have shaped technical strategy at a Cloud Service Provider or large-scale Enterprise SaaS company
 * Bring strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity
 * Drive the highest-leverage technical outcomes without formal authority-you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust
 * Are highly effective across org boundaries-you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike

Strong candidates may also have

 * Experience with multi-cloud or distributable deployments of complex systems
 * Experience building the data foundations for enterprise administration-entitlements, metering, usage and cost visibility, 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

* Define and drive multi-year technical strategy for foundational enterprise systems, including our distributability and multi-cloud direction
 * Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams
 * Serve as a primary technical decision-maker for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope
 * Design the platform primitives-identity, permissions, governance, connectivity, and usage data-that other product teams build on
 * Partner with teams such as Inference and Platform on foundational systems, Customer Success for the voice of the customer, and Infrastructure and Safeguards on security, privacy, and responsible deployment
 * Mentor and develop senior engineers across the org, and drive alignment across Product, GTM, and Customer Success while proactively addressing systemic technical risks