Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Storage Architect

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco, CA is seeking an experienced Storage Architect/Engineer to lead the design and operation of our exabyte-scale storage platform. You will own architectural decisions, ensure security, reliability, and cost efficiency across regions and clouds.

You will partner with research, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, high-performance storage that supports Claude workloads and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating a large-scale distributed storage system in production.
• Deep understanding of storage fundamentals: replication and erasure coding, consistency models, metadata management, durability, failure handling, high availability, access controls, identity models.
• Experience serving as owner, tech lead, or architect for a large, complex infrastructure system.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability in at least one systems language (C++, Rust, Go, or Java).
• Experience operating and steering critical infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic's storage layers.
• Build strong relationships with users and partner teams, and deep understanding of their access patterns and requirements: everything from large-scale ML and training workloads, to financial data processing with strong controls.
• Partner closely with CSPs, networking, and datacenter teams on infrastructure primitives.
• Translate user needs into scalable, achievable system designs and drive alignment.
• Make principled tradeoffs across durability, availability, consistency, performance, security, and cost, and document the reasoning so other engineers and teams can build on it.
• Break large problems into deliverable milestones, and lead cross-functional teams to ship new capabilities safely at unprecedented speed.
• Work across backend stacks, abstraction layers, and clients to provide users with simple, consistent interfaces no matter where data lives.
• Plan and lead large migrations of critical workloads with user minimal disruption.
• Participate in and improve operations, including SLOs, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call.
• Stay hands-on in code and production, including in the most critical and complex areas.

Skills

Distributed storage systems

Storage architecture

C++

Rust

Go

Java

Security and access controls

Multi-region deployment

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco, CA is seeking an experienced Storage Architect/Engineer to lead the design and operation of our exabyte-scale storage platform. You will own architectural decisions, ensure security, reliability, and cost efficiency across regions and clouds.

You will partner with research, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, high-performance storage that supports Claude workloads and data pipelines.