Staff+ Software Engineer, Storage + TransferNew

The opportunity

Storage plays an essential role at Anthropic across research, development, product, and running the business. Our exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage infrastructure underpins training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term data retention.

What you'll do

  • Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic's storage layers

  • Build strong relationships with our users and partner teams, and deep: understanding of their access patterns and unique security, usability, and business requirements: everything from large-scale ML and training workloads, to financial data processing with strong controls

  • Partner closely with CSPs, networking, and datacenter teams on infrastructure primitives

  • Translate user needs into scalable, achievable system designs and drive alignment

  • Make principled tradeoffs across durability, availability, consistency,: performance, security, and cost, and document the reasoning so other engineers and teams can build on it

  • Break large problems into deliverable milestones, and lead cross-functional: teams to ship new capabilities safely at unprecedented speed

What they're looking for

  • Work across backend stacks, abstraction layers, and clients to provide users: with simple, consistent interfaces no matter where data lives
  • Plan and lead large migrations of critical workloads with user minimal disruption
  • Participate in and improve operations, including SLOs, observability,: capacity planning, incident response, and on-call
  • Stay hands-on in code and production, including in the most critical and complex areas