Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity & OAuth

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Platform Connectivity in a role spanning SF and London. You will design, build, and operate the MCP proxy and OAuth/token management, owning reliability and enterprise trust.

The role emphasizes cross-org collaboration and independence in tackling multi-month projects across distributed systems. You will work with Python and TypeScript SDKs, contribute to MCP standards, and partner with research to productize capabilities that power Claude and

Qualifications

• Experience as a backend or platform engineer.
• Experience operating production distributed systems, with reliability and observability focus.
• Excellent communication skills with cross-team coordination.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core connectivity infrastructure (MCP proxy, OAuth, token management).
• Ensure reliability, SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems for enterprise-scale usage.
• Contribute to MCP standard and SDKs (Python/TypeScript) and partner with research to productize capabilities.

Skills

Backend/platform engineering

OAuth at scale

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Platform Connectivity in a role spanning SF and London. You will design, build, and operate the MCP proxy and OAuth/token management, owning reliability and enterprise trust.

The role emphasizes cross-org collaboration and independence in tackling multi-month projects across distributed systems. You will work with Python and TypeScript SDKs, contribute to MCP standards, and partner with research to productize capabilities that power Claude and