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Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform

New York, NY · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$405,000 – $485,000

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What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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