Platform Engineer: Scale Infra & Cloud-Native

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space for collaboration

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking experienced software engineers for its Seattle office to enhance platform infrastructure for AI development. The role requires a minimum of 8 years’ experience with distributed systems and a strong foundation in service-oriented architectures. Expected responsibilities include architecting development environments, maintaining infrastructure for reliability, and working across multiple cloud providers. The annual salary ranges from $405,000 to $485,000 USD, alongside competitive benefits including flexible hours and generous leave policies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Experience with cloud-native products and developer tools.
• Strong fundamentals in service-oriented architectures and systems design.
• Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with multi-cloud networking and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize development infrastructure for AI product development.
• Maintain core infrastructure enabling reliable services.
• Build infrastructure to operate across multiple cloud providers.
• Manage identity and authentication systems for the product suite.
• Own the transformation of Claude API for cloud-native environments.

Skills

Backend or platform engineering

Distributed systems

Service-oriented architecture

Python

Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Kubernetes

Technical decision-making

Building scalable solutions

Job description

Anthropic is seeking experienced software engineers for its Seattle office to enhance platform infrastructure for AI development. The role requires a minimum of 8 years’ experience with distributed systems and a strong foundation in service-oriented architectures. Expected responsibilities include architecting development environments, maintaining infrastructure for reliability, and working across multiple cloud providers. The annual salary ranges from $405,000 to $485,000 USD, alongside competitive benefits including flexible hours and generous leave policies.