Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App InfrastructureActive$320K

The opportunity

Claude App Infrastructure owns the reliability, experience, and agentic capabilities of claude. ai.

What you'll do

  • Design and build sandboxed compute environments where Claude can safely: execute code, access tools, and interact with external services

  • Build state management systems for long-running agent tasks, handling: checkpoints, recovery, and resumption across failures

  • Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access, so: Claude can act on behalf of users securely

  • Create observability and debugging tools for agent execution, so we: understand what Claude did, why, and how to make it better

  • Partner closely with product and research teams to define what's possible and ship it

  • Experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at scale

What they're looking for

  • Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield work where you help shape the architecture
  • Interest in problems that don't have existing playbooks
  • Experience building multi-tenant execution platforms or serverless infrastructure
  • Background in security engineering, sandboxing, or isolation technologies
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions)
  • Experience with state machines, checkpointing, or durable execution patterns
  • Low-level systems experience (Linux internals, eBPF, container runtimes)