Software Engineer jobs in New York
304 open roles classified as Software Engineer and placed in New York, read from employers’ own careers sites.
Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000
Build the data infrastructure underpinning AI safety systems at Anthropic, designing pipelines and governance controls that power detection and moderation across multiple cloud providers. This role suits experienced data engineers who care about correctness and security in high-stakes environments.
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Neurodivergent Fellowship
Palantir
Full-time · 2 locations · $110,000 – $200,000
This is a fellowship program recruiting neurodivergent software engineers and builders to join Palantir as full-time employees. The role is designed for people who think differently and can recognize patterns others miss, suited to those who want to work on high-impact problems in data-driven decision-making and AI-powered solutions.
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Staff Software Engineer, Education
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $405,000
This role leads the technical architecture for Anthropic's AI-native education platform, owning everything from learner data models and content delivery to AI-augmented assessment systems that adapt to individual understanding. You'll partner with educators to build infrastructure that enables genuinely new learning experiences—competency-based progression, real-time adaptation, skill verification—at the scale of millions of users.
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Software Engineer - Apollo Systems
Palantir
Full-time · 2 locations · $145,000 – $200,000
Palantir seeks a Software Engineer to build and maintain Apollo, a distributed system for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments including on-premise, cloud, and air-gapped networks. The role involves designing backup and restore solutions, optimizing container artifact storage, and solving complex distributed systems problems at scale.
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Software Engineer, Desktop
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000
Anthropic is hiring a desktop engineer to build native macOS and Windows applications for Claude, their AI assistant. This role suits strong engineers eager to learn multiple programming languages and platforms to create elegant desktop experiences, with emphasis on both web technologies and native code.
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Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems
Palantir
4 locations · $145,000 – $200,000
Palantir is hiring a senior engineer to develop command and control and autonomous systems software that combines sensors, unmanned vehicles, and AI decision-making for military and civilian operations. This role suits experienced software engineers comfortable with real-time systems, robotics integration, and working on complex, mission-critical applications.
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Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $625,000
Build developer tools powered by large language models at an AI safety-focused company. This role suits experienced full-stack engineers who care about AI ethics and want to shape how developers interact with AI coding assistants.
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Software Engineer, New Grad - Production Infrastructure
Palantir
3 locations · $145,000 – $155,000
Palantir seeks a new graduate software engineer to contribute to production infrastructure platforms including Kubernetes-based PaaS, deployment systems, and observability tools used by government and defense agencies. This role suits someone comfortable learning on the job, writing quality code across multiple languages, and taking ownership of features from design through production.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $405,000 – $485,000
Join Anthropic as a foundational privacy engineer establishing the privacy function for frontier AI systems, designing and implementing privacy-preserving architectures from the ground up. This senior individual contributor role combines privacy engineering, AI safety, and distributed systems work to embed privacy protections into large-scale AI training and inference systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.
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Software Engineer - Mission Manager
Palantir
Full-time · 3 locations · $135,000 – $200,000
This role focuses on building infrastructure and APIs for Palantir's Mission Manager platform, a secure government software-as-a-service offering designed for sensitive environments. You'll architect Kubernetes-based systems and develop core infrastructure components while helping to shape the product's early strategic direction.
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Staff Software Engineer, Code RL
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $405,000 – $625,000
A staff-level engineering role building reinforcement learning infrastructure for Claude's coding abilities, working across research teams to design production systems, frameworks, and tools that scale agentic coding environments. Suited to experienced Python architects with a track record of designing APIs others adopt and the ability to anticipate and prevent failure modes in complex, evolving codebases.
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Senior Software Engineer, Substrate
Palantir
3 locations · $145,000 – $200,000
This role involves designing and operating Palantir's managed Kubernetes infrastructure across diverse environments—from on-premises to cloud hyperscalers—with a focus on automation and operational excellence at scale. It suits engineers who are excited about infrastructure engineering and want to build foundational tooling for a large production fleet serving critical applications.
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Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $405,000 – $605,000
This role leads infrastructure design for reinforcement learning environments at Anthropic, building the frameworks and APIs that let research teams train AI systems faster. It suits experienced systems engineers with deep Python expertise and a track record of designing abstractions that other teams adopt and build upon.
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Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Palantir
Full-time · New York, NY · $135,000 – $200,000
Palantir seeks a backend software engineer to build infrastructure components like databases and distributed systems that power their data analytics platform. This role suits engineers who enjoy designing scalable, secure systems and have the opportunity to work directly with customers through the Frontline program.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $405,000 – $485,000
Lead the technical design and delivery of enterprise AI integration products at Anthropic, building the connective tissue that lets Claude work across organizational workflows. This role suits experienced engineers comfortable translating customer needs into product direction and partnering closely with research teams to shape AI capabilities.
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Software Engineer, Internship - Production Infrastructure
Palantir
Internship · 3 locations · $10,500 / month
This internship offers hands-on experience building production infrastructure platforms at Palantir, including Kubernetes-based systems, deployment tools, and observability solutions. The role suits recent graduates or early-career engineers who want to ship real features while learning from a mentor in a mission-focused environment.
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Staff Software Engineer, Growth
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $405,000
This role involves building technical systems to drive user growth, retention, and revenue for Anthropic's AI products through experimentation and data analysis. It suits engineers who combine full-stack development skills with a passion for scaling products and thrive working cross-functionally on metrics-driven initiatives.
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Software Engineer, Internship - Infrastructure
Palantir
Internship · 2 locations · $10,500 / month
This internship offers hands-on experience building infrastructure that powers Palantir's data platforms, working on backend systems, developer tools, frontend frameworks, or storage technologies depending on your team assignment. It's ideal for early-career engineers who want mentorship while solving real problems at scale across one of four specialized infrastructure domains.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000
This role owns the data pipelines, observability systems, and operational tooling that track and optimize Anthropic's massive multi-cloud GPU and accelerator fleet. It suits engineers who enjoy moving between data engineering, systems operations, and observability work, and who want to directly influence infrastructure decisions affecting billions of dollars in compute spending.
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Software Engineer, New Grad - Infrastructure
Palantir
2 locations · $145,000 – $155,000
This is an infrastructure engineering role within Palantir's Foundations organization, where new graduates will build shared systems that power the company's data platforms while receiving dedicated mentorship. The position suits engineers who want to grow rapidly by solving backend, frontend, storage, and developer tooling challenges that impact thousands of internal and external users.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Financial Fraud
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000
This role leads fraud prevention engineering at Anthropic, building real-time systems to detect and block financial abuse while keeping legitimate transactions flowing. It suits senior engineers with deep payments expertise who can think like attackers and balance competing demands like fraud loss, false positives, and approval rates.
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Software Engineer, New Grad - Defense
Palantir
Full-time · 3 locations · $145,000 – $155,000
Palantir seeks new graduate software engineers to build data analytics platforms deployed across government and defense sectors, working on full-stack features with mentorship and opportunities to engage directly with end-users.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000
Anthropic is seeking an experienced database engineer to design and operate the infrastructure supporting Claude's API and research workloads at scale, handling billions of requests across multiple cloud providers. This role suits engineers with deep expertise in distributed databases who can lead large infrastructure projects and balance rapid development with production reliability.
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Backend Software Engineer - Defense
Palantir
Full-time · 3 locations · $135,000 – $200,000
Palantir seeks a backend engineer to build data infrastructure and APIs for military command systems that process critical operational information across defense organizations. The role suits engineers who enjoy solving complex scalability challenges and designing robust systems that directly impact real-world operations.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000
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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Software Engineer jobs in other states
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Reports on Software Engineer hiring
- Texas Postings Doubled This Week: 585 New Roles vs 285, Second Only to CaliforniaSep 16, 2026
- New York Added 386 New Roles This Week, Up 11.6% While the National Week Rose 22.6%Sep 13, 2026
- California Opened 798 Roles This Week, Up 30% — But 10 of 12 States Grew FasterSep 12, 2026
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