The opportunity
Data Infrastructure designs, operates, and scales secure, privacy-respecting systems that power data-driven decisions across Anthropic. Our mission is to provide data processing, storage, and access that are trusted, fast, and easy to use.
What you'll do
Data Governance & Access Control: Design and implement robust access control systems ensuring only authorized users can access sensitive data. Build infrastructure for permission management, audit logging, and compliance requirements. Work on IAM policies, ACLs, and security controls that scale across thousands of users and systems.
Financial Data Infrastructure: Build and maintain data pipelines and warehouses powering business-critical reporting. Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and availability for complex financial systems, including third party revenue ingestion pipelines; manage the external relationships as needed to drive upstream dependencies. Own the reliability of systems processing revenue, usage, and business metrics.
Cloud Storage & Reliability: Architect disaster recovery, backup, and replication systems for petabyte-scale data. Ensure high availability and durability of data stored in cloud object storage (GCS, S3). Build systems that protect against data loss and enable rapid recovery.
Data Platform & Tooling: Scale data processing infrastructure using technologies like BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, dbt, and Spark. Optimize query performance, manage costs, and enable self-service analytics across the organization.
Have 10+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a: Software Engineer role, building data infrastructure, storage systems, or related distributed systems
Have 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading: large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
What they're looking for
- Can set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it
- Have deep experience with at least one of:
- Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
