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# Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code

- **Company:** Anthropic Limited
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $320,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Programming Environments, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Prompt Engineering, Containerization, Codebase, Automation Anywhere
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25196_a3bf3cb5116787d78b7a09929342124d

## About the Role

We're specifically looking for a Software Engineer to help us build and maintain new agentic coding tools for developers. The ideal candidate will have a passion for developer tools, extensive knowledge of diverse programming environments and languages, and experience with advanced LLM features like tool-use, chaining and orchestration patterns, and prompt engineering. Curiosity about AI research is a must!, 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, 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., A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your "major life activities." If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

 * Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
 * Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
 * Blind or low vision
 * Cancer (past or present)
 * Cardiovascular or heart disease
 * Celiac disease
 * Cerebral palsy
 * Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
 * Diabetes
 * Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
 * Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
 * Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
 * Intellectual or developmental disability
 * Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
 * Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
 * Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
 * Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
 * Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
 * Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
 * Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
 * Short stature (dwarfism)
 * Traumatic brain injury

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