Staff+ Caching Systems Engineer: Redis & Distributed Infra

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Daily meals and snacks in the office

$500/month wellness stipend

Job summary

Anthropic in New York is seeking experienced engineers to build a caching layer from the ground up, optimizing performance across products. The ideal candidate has a strong background in distributed systems and technical leadership.

Responsibilities include designing scalable caching solutions and collaborating with product teams to enhance infrastructure. Competitive benefits, such as comprehensive health insurance and flexible work policies, are included.

Qualifications

• Strong technical leadership and collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance speed and reliability in production systems.
• 10+ years building distributed infrastructure, including leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Build Anthropic’s cache layer as a managed service.
• Optimize caching systems for performance and reliability.
• Drive technical direction for caching infrastructure.

Skills

Technical leadership

Collaboration skills

Systems programming languages (Go, Rust, Java, C++, Python)

Caching architectures knowledge

Experience with Redis, Memcached

Infrastructure project leadership

Tools

Redis

ElastiCache

Memorystore

Job description

Anthropic in New York is seeking experienced engineers to build a caching layer from the ground up, optimizing performance across products. The ideal candidate has a strong background in distributed systems and technical leadership.

Responsibilities include designing scalable caching solutions and collaborating with product teams to enhance infrastructure. Competitive benefits, such as comprehensive health insurance and flexible work policies, are included.