Senior Storage Architect - Exabyte-Scale Systems

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic Inc. in San Francisco seeks an experienced storage engineer to shape architecture for exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage used across research, training, and operations.

You will own high-stakes architectural decisions and collaborate with research, infrastructure, business, and data teams to optimize storage access, security, and performance. You will drive strategic investments to improve scale, reliability, and cost efficiency while staying hands-on in code and production, across

Qualifications

• Design and operate a large-scale distributed storage system in production.
• Deep understanding of replication, erasure coding, durability, and multi-region storage.
• Experience owning an infrastructure system used by multiple orgs/customers.
• Strong coding in a systems language (C++, Rust, Go, or Java).
• Experience with security, on-call, incident response, and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic's storage layers.
• Build relationships with users and partner teams to understand access patterns and requirements.
• Partner with CSPs, networking, and datacenter teams on infrastructure primitives.
• Translate user needs into scalable designs and drive alignment.
• Make tradeoffs across durability, availability, and cost with documented reasoning.

Skills

Distributed storage design

Large-scale systems

C++

Rust

Leadership

Security & access

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic Inc. in San Francisco seeks an experienced storage engineer to shape architecture for exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage used across research, training, and operations.

You will own high-stakes architectural decisions and collaborate with research, infrastructure, business, and data teams to optimize storage access, security, and performance. You will drive strategic investments to improve scale, reliability, and cost efficiency while staying hands-on in code and production, across