Senior Platform Engineer, Secure Sandboxing & Cloud

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco seeks a Senior Backend/Platform Engineer to design and scale the secure execution environment behind Claude’s capabilities. You will lead multi-month projects spanning research to production and own architecture decisions.

Ideal candidates have deep distributed-systems experience, proficiency in Python/Go/Rust, and familiarity with cloud infra and Kubernetes. You’ll collaborate across teams to deliver robust, scalable platform solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of practical backend/platform engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems, with tech-lead level exposure.
• Strong foundations in service-oriented architectures, networking and design.

Responsibilities

• Scope complex multi-month projects and drive cross-org alignment.
• Make architectural decisions shaping Anthropic's platform.
• Collaborate with research to productize capabilities and scale infrastructure.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

System design

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco seeks a Senior Backend/Platform Engineer to design and scale the secure execution environment behind Claude’s capabilities. You will lead multi-month projects spanning research to production and own architecture decisions.

Ideal candidates have deep distributed-systems experience, proficiency in Python/Go/Rust, and familiarity with cloud infra and Kubernetes. You’ll collaborate across teams to deliver robust, scalable platform solutions.