Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Cache & Infra

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead the caching infrastructure for Claude. You will define the data plane, developer experience, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure low latency and correctness across a global user base.

You will design and operate a managed Redis fleet, build client libraries, and implement CDC-driven invalidation that keeps caches in sync with databases. This role offers high leverage in a small team.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of caching architectures, including invalidation strategies and consistency tradeoffs.
• Experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores in production.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Go, Rust, Java, or Python) at scale.
• Track record of leading large, complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead.
• Ability to balance speed with reliability in production systems.
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical direction for caching infrastructure used across Product and Research.
• Design, build, and operate a managed Redis fleet that scales to support millions of users.
• Build client libraries and developer-facing abstractions that make correct caching the default.
• Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation that keeps caches in sync with databases.
• Architect caching solutions across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, and other environments.
• Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability and cost on hot paths; build observability tooling.
• Partner with product and research to understand access patterns and accelerate work.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for caching technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Caching

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Redis

Memcached

Debezium

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead the caching infrastructure for Claude. You will define the data plane, developer experience, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure low latency and correctness across a global user base.

You will design and operate a managed Redis fleet, build client libraries, and implement CDC-driven invalidation that keeps caches in sync with databases. This role offers high leverage in a small team.