Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Autonomous Agent Infrastructure San Francisco, CA | New York[...]

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for the Claude App Infrastructure team. In this role, you will lead the design of secure execution environments for Claude, ensuring reliable and safe interactions across platforms.

Ideal candidates will have strong experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and a passion for security. The role offers significant compensation and an opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at scale.
• Comfort with cloud environments and understanding of security principles.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code in relevant programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and build sandboxed compute environments for safely executing code.
• Develop state management systems for handling long-running tasks.
• Partner with product teams to deliver high-quality features at scale.

Skills

Distributed systems experience

Cloud native infrastructure

Containerization and sandboxing

Clean coding in Python, Go, Rust

Security and safe system design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Claude App Infrastructure owns the reliability, experience, and agentic capabilities of claude.ai. We're the platform team for Anthropic's flagship consumer product, responsible for the serving architecture that keeps Claude available at scale, the conversation experience, and the infrastructure that lets every product team at Anthropic ship into claude.ai safely and fast. When the product grows at hyper scale, we're the team that makes sure it feels the same or better.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build sandboxed compute environments where Claude can safely execute code, access tools, and interact with external services
• Build state management systems for long-running agent tasks, handling checkpoints, recovery, and resumption across failures
• Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access, so Claude can act on behalf of users securely
• Create observability and debugging tools for agent execution, so we understand what Claude did, why, and how to make it better
• Partner closely with product and research teams to define what's possible and ship it
• Experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at scale
• Comfort building cloud native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Experience with containers, sandboxing, or secure execution environments (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, V8 isolates)
• Write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar language
• Care about security, isolation, and building systems that fail safely

Preferred qualifications

• Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield work where you help shape the architecture
• Interest in problems that don't have existing playbooks
• Experience building multi-tenant execution platforms or serverless infrastructure
• Background in security engineering, sandboxing, or isolation technologies
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions)
• Experience with state machines, checkpointing, or durable execution patterns

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$320,000 - $485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas. However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.