# Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/14693185-d652-416d-96f0-40f03da01bda

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 405000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

Anthropic is hiring experienced backend and platform engineers to build the infrastructure that powers their AI platform, serving both internal teams and hundreds of thousands of external developers. This role suits engineers with 8+ years of experience who can independently own complex, multi-month projects across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service architecture.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Go, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Python, Rust, Service Oriented Architecture

## Required

- Minimum 8 years of backend or platform engineering experience
- Experience building scalable distributed systems
- Strong fundamentals in service-oriented architectures, networking, and systems design
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems languages
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and/or container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Ability to independently scope, design, and execute complex projects
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience

## Nice to have

- Experience with multi-cloud networking
- Experience operating at tech lead level
- Background with developer tools or external developer-facing products
- Experience in both 0-to-1 and mature team settings
- Prior work on foundational platform systems

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5157847008