The opportunity
We are looking for experienced software engineers to join our Platform organization. We build the foundational primitives that accelerate product development across Anthropic, and own infrastructure and systems that teams depend on to ship reliably and at scale - either…
What you'll do
Have a minimum of 8 years of practical experience as a backend or platform: engineer building scalable distributed systems, ideally operating at tech lead level or equivalent
distributed systems, cloud-native products, developer tools, or external developer facing products
Have strong fundamentals in service-oriented architectures, networking, and: systems design, ideally having owned both the technical vision and execution of a foundational platform system end to end
Are proficient in Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems languages
Have experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure), container: orchestration (Kubernetes), and/or multi-cloud networking
Take full ownership of your work—from design through deployment and operations
What they're looking for
- Can navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions independently, and: have ideally operated in 0 to 1 and more mature team or company settings
- Take a product-focused approach to platform work and care about building: solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
- Care about building systems that other engineers love to use
