$320,000 – $485,000
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What this role is
Anthropic is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to design and operate a managed Redis caching layer that serves all of Claude's products, optimizing performance across millions of requests while building client libraries and cache invalidation systems that make correct caching the default across the company. This role suits engineers with deep distributed systems expertise who want to drive technical strategy on infrastructure that directly impacts AI product performance.
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What they ask for
Required
- Significant production distributed systems experience
- Deep knowledge of caching architectures and invalidation strategies
- Production experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory stores
- Proficiency in systems programming language (Go, Rust, Java, C++) or Python at scale
- Track record leading large, complex infrastructure projects
- Balance speed with production reliability
- Technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration
Nice to have
- 10+ years building distributed infrastructure with 3+ years leading large-scale projects or teams
- Experience building managed infrastructure platforms consumed by many teams
- Change data capture or streaming data infrastructure experience
- Production experience with Redis Cluster, Valkey, ElastiCache, or Memorystore at scale
- Client library or SDK design experience
- Infrastructure scaling through rapid growth at high-growth companies
- Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment experience
- Open source contributions to caching, databases, or related systems