The opportunity
We are looking for experienced backend and distributed systems engineers to join the Agentic Systems team within our Platform organization. Agentic Systems builds Claude Managed Agents: the hosted platform for building, running, and scaling production agents on Claude.
What you'll do
Have a minimum of 8 years of practical experience as a backend, distributed: systems, or infrastructure engineer
Have built and operated stateful, long-running, or high-throughput systems in: production — workflow orchestration, streaming, storage, container or job orchestration — and can reason rigorously about durability, consistency, failure modes, and cost
Have strong product sense and treat API design as a craft; you care about the: developer on the other side of the interface and can ideate and execute product strategy with cross-functional partners in new domains
Are excited by 0 → 1 work and comfortable navigating ambiguity, and have: ideally operated in both early-stage and more mature team or company settings
Use Claude or other AI tools as a core part of how you build software, and: have opinions about what makes an agent harness good
Take full ownership of your work: from design through build, deployment, and operations (including on-call), to iterating on and improving what you ship
What they're looking for
- Care about building systems that other engineers and businesses love to use, and about doing so safel
- Built or contributed to an agent harness, agent framework, or LLM: orchestration layer — tool execution, context management, memory, or multi-agent coordination
- Worked on an AI or ML platform (model serving, inference infrastructure,: developer tooling) at an AI lab or an AI-native product company, or led adoption of AI-driven development inside an engineering organization
- Built evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure for LLM or agent systems
