Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Caching & Redis

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

Job summary

Anthropic, a leader in reliable AI, seeks experienced engineers to architect and own the cache layer for Claude. You will drive the caching strategy, design a scalable Redis fleet, and build developer-focused abstractions to ensure consistent caching across teams.

You will collaborate with product and research to align caching with access patterns, improve latency, and reduce operational toil. A strong systems background and cross‑functional leadership are essential for impact at scale.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating production 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, C++) or Python at scale.

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 across Claude's product ecosystem.
• Build client libraries and developer-facing abstractions that make correct caching the default for Anthropic engineers.
• Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation that keeps cached data consistent with source-of-truth databases.
• Architect caching solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, and other environments.
• Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability, and cost efficiency on Anthropic's hottest paths; build observability and tooling to make cache behavior easy to understand and debug.
• Partner with product and research teams to understand access patterns and accelerate their work.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for caching technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Caching architectures

Systems programming

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Redis

Memcached

Debezium

ElastiCache

Job description

Anthropic, a leader in reliable AI, seeks experienced engineers to architect and own the cache layer for Claude. You will drive the caching strategy, design a scalable Redis fleet, and build developer-focused abstractions to ensure consistent caching across teams.

You will collaborate with product and research to align caching with access patterns, improve latency, and reduce operational toil. A strong systems background and cross‑functional leadership are essential for impact at scale.