Staff Platform Engineer: Secure Sandbox & Runtime

AI Chopping Block; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking senior backend engineers to design and scale secure, distributed systems that support Claude's agentic capabilities. You will own architecture from design through deployment, collaborating with research to productize advanced capabilities and delivering a platform used by thousands of internal and external engineers daily.

We value deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native stacks, and languages like Python, Go, or Rust, plus ownership mindset and the ability to

Qualifications

• Have a minimum of 8 years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems, ideally operating at tech lead level or equivalent distributed systems, cloud-native products, developer tools, or external developer facing products
• Have strong fundamentals in service-oriented architectures, networking, and systems design, ideally having owned both the technical vision and execution of a foundational platform system end to end
• Are proficient in Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems languages
• Have experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and/or multi-cloud networking
• Take full ownership of your work—from design through deployment and operations
• Can navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions independently, and have ideally operated in 0 to 1 and more mature team or company settings
• Take a product-focused approach to platform work and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to us

Responsibilities

• Scope complex, multi-month projects and drive cross-org alignment
• Make architectural decisions that shape how Anthropic builds and scales its products
• Partner directly with research to productize cutting-edge capabilities
• Impact the platform that thousands of engineers depend on daily

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

Python

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Anthropic is seeking senior backend engineers to design and scale secure, distributed systems that support Claude's agentic capabilities. You will own architecture from design through deployment, collaborating with research to productize advanced capabilities and delivering a platform used by thousands of internal and external engineers daily.

We value deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native stacks, and languages like Python, Go, or Rust, plus ownership mindset and the ability to