Staff Platform Tools Engineer - Backend & DevEx Lead

anthropic; San Francisco, New York, Seattle (CA, NY, WA); On-site; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Platform Acceleration to own the technical strategy for essential internal tools used by Claude's platform. You will design, build, and operate tooling that helps our product engineers ship code faster while ensuring changes meet safety and reliability standards.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in backend services, distributed systems, and modern cloud-based tooling, with strong Python/Go/TypeScript capabilities and a track record of

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale backend services or distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Deep experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, test infrastructure, or deployment systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
• Experience leading large, complex technical projects across teams, from an ambiguous problem to a tool people use.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with experience supporting internal partner teams.
• Interest in Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, and make sure its hardest problems get solved, by you or through others
• Stay hands‑on: design, build, and operate the tools that help Platform teams ship code faster
• Define what it takes to trust a change, including changes written by Claude, and build the tooling that holds that bar before and after merge
• Build agents that take on repetitive engineering work, such as diagnosing failures, fixing broken tests, and running migrations
• Embed with partner teams to find their biggest sources of friction, validate a solution with them, and turn the fix into a product other teams can adopt
• Measure developer experience and adoption, and use the data to decide what to build next
• Move between building new tools and improving the shared systems teams already depend on, as priorities shift

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

TypeScript

Backend development

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Leadership

Developer tooling

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Platform Acceleration to own the technical strategy for essential internal tools used by Claude's platform. You will design, build, and operate tooling that helps our product engineers ship code faster while ensuring changes meet safety and reliability standards.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in backend services, distributed systems, and modern cloud-based tooling, with strong Python/Go/TypeScript capabilities and a track record of