# Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Sampling Path

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/ade6d7e2-6048-46ad-926a-a12e96f13d47

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 320000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

This role owns the production systems that process every token Claude generates, managing latency and reliability across all platforms at massive scale. It suits engineers experienced in high-QPS distributed systems who thrive owning operational excellence and making critical trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost.

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

## Required

- designed, built, and operated high QPS systems at global scale
- accountable for production systems including incident response and postmortems
- strong foundation in distributed systems: replication, consistency tradeoffs, failure modes
- design systems for graceful degradation
- shipped broad changes to mission critical systems

## Nice to have

- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- familiarity with LLM inference systems and transformer-based models

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5419868008