Staff Database Engineer: Production-Scale, Multi-Cloud

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is hiring experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure powering Claude and research workloads. As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you will architect and operate systems handling billions of API requests across GCP and AWS, enabling reliable data flow for production and research.

You will define database strategy, design scalable storage, and lead initiatives from data movement to caching.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating production database or storage systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed database architectures and OLTP systems at scale.
• Proficiency with SQL and at least one major relational or distributed database engine (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spanner, CockroachDB, DynamoDB).
• Track record of leading large, complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead.
• Ability to balance rapid delivery with production reliability.
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical direction for database solutions used across Product and Research.
• Design and implement database solutions that scale to support millions of users across Claude's product ecosystem.
• Build and scale database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance.
• Build the database platform that lets Anthropic engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling.
• Architect data storage solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first‑party deployments, third‑party deployments, and other environments.
• Develop database infrastructure that serves both product and research workloads with different performance characteristics.
• Build data movement infrastructure (migration tooling, backfill, and change data capture pipelines) that safely consolidates and moves data across the organization.
• Design and operate caching infrastructure, including CDC-driven cache invalidation, that keeps Anthropic's hottest paths fast and correct.
• Partner with product and research teams to understand data requirements and build infrastructure that accelerates their work.
• Optimize database performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.
• Make build‑vs‑buy decisions for database technologies.

Skills

Distributed database architectures

SQL proficiency

Leadership

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Spanner

CockroachDB

DynamoDB

GCP/AWS

Job description

Anthropic Limited is hiring experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure powering Claude and research workloads. As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you will architect and operate systems handling billions of API requests across GCP and AWS, enabling reliable data flow for production and research.

You will define database strategy, design scalable storage, and lead initiatives from data movement to caching.