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Senior Staff Software Engineer, API

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

New York, NY · Senior Staff

$405,000 – $485,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Anthropic seeks a senior technical leader to own the strategic direction and execution of their Claude API platform, working across multiple engineering teams to scale reliable access to their AI models. This role suits someone with deep distributed systems expertise and a track record of driving large-scale platform initiatives through influence and technical excellence.

Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • 12+ years of engineering experience at Staff or Senior Staff level
  • Demonstrated ability to shape technical strategy for large-scale API or distributed systems platforms
  • Expertise in distributed systems and API architecture
  • Ability to lead through influence and quality of thinking without formal authority
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

  • Experience integrating frontier AI capabilities
  • Product instincts for API design
  • Familiarity with feature flagging systems

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