# Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/d8392fc1-fe57-4d0b-b1d3-254039a72bf4

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

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

## Summary

This role leads the infrastructure that delivers Claude AI across multiple cloud platforms, balancing performance and cost at massive scale. It's ideal for backend engineers who excel at cross-platform system design and can navigate the complexity of serving billions of inference requests across AWS, GCP, Azure, and beyond.

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

## Skills named

Autoscaling, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Python, Rust

## Required

- Significant experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, or container orchestration
- Cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and external partners
- Ability to work with external partners and align goals
- Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies and provider ecosystems
- Autonomous problem-solver who takes end-to-end ownership

## Nice to have

- Direct experience scaling infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms and managing differences in networking, security, billing, and managed services
- Hands-on capacity management, cost optimization, or resource planning at scale across diverse environments
- Understanding of multi-region deployments, geographic routing, and global traffic management
- Proficiency in Python or Rust
- Prior inference or ML experience

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5231496008