The opportunity
We're looking for experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure that powers Claude's products and Anthropic's research. As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you'll architect and operate the systems that let millions of users interact with Claude…
What you'll do
Drive the technical direction for database solutions used across Product and Research
Design and implement database solutions that scale to support millions of: users across Claude's product ecosystem
Build and scale database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance
Build the database platform that lets Anthropic engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling.
Architect data storage solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first-party: deployments, third-party deployments, and other environments
Develop database infrastructure that serves both product and research: workloads with different performance characteristics
What they're looking for
- + years building and scaling database systems, with 3+ years leading large-scale projects or teams
- Experience scaling databases through periods of rapid growth at high-growth companies
- Experience operating Spanner, CockroachDB, TiDB, AlloyDB, or other globally: distributed SQL databases in production
- Experience with Redis, Temporal, vector databases, or async job processing frameworks
- Experience with change data capture (Debezium or similar), large-scale data: migration, or streaming data infrastructure
- Experience building multi-cloud or hybrid cloud database solutions
- Knowledge of database orchestration and automation at scale
- Contributions to database internals, storage engines, or related open source projects
