Senior Platform Engineer — Secure, Scalable Backend Systems

Anthropic

York and North Yorkshire

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Fertility benefits

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Mental health support

Equity packages

Equity donation matching

Retirement plans

Life and income protection

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Education stipend

Home office stipend

Relocation support

Meals in office

Job summary

Anthropic in the United Kingdom invites experienced backend/platform engineers to lead scalable distributed systems and infrastructure. You will own architecture decisions and drive multi-month projects, partnering with research to productize capabilities used by millions of customers.

The role requires strong fundamentals in cloud-native design, container orchestration, and drive for robust, scalable solutions, with a product-focused mindset.

Qualifications

8+ years of backend/platform engineering experience.
Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
Proficiency in Python, Go or Rust and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

Scope and drive multi-month platform projects end-to-end.
Align across organizations and make architectural decisions.
Partner with research to productize capabilities and scale products.

Skills

Service-oriented architectures

Networking

Systems design

Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

The role requires strong fundamentals in cloud-native design, container orchestration, and drive for robust, scalable solutions, with a product-focused mindset.

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