Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation allowance

Flexible working hours

Optional equity donation matching

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Engineer to spearhead the Enterprise pillar, focusing on making Claude enterprise-ready. This role demands deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, alongside a robust track record in engineering at high levels.

Responsibilities include defining technical strategies, leading impactful initiatives, and mentoring staff engineers. The position offers competitive salary and benefits, including visa sponsorship and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with a track record at Staff or Senior Staff level.
• Experience in shaping technical strategies for large-scale Cloud Service Providers or Enterprise SaaS companies.
• Expertise in distributed systems and API architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year technical strategy.
• Lead high-complexity engineering initiatives.
• Make major architectural decisions.

Skills

Staff level engineering experience

Technical strategy shaping

Distributed systems expertise

API architecture knowledge

Cross-org collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Golang

Rust

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

About The Role

Enterprise is central to Anthropic's mission. The organizations that could benefit most from Claude often have the most demanding needs, with rigorous requirements around end‑user experience, procurement, security, and permissions. We believe earning their trust is essential to ensuring AI benefits the world broadly.

We’re looking for a Staff+ Engineer to anchor our Enterprise pillar—the team that makes Claude enterprise‑ready at scale. When a Fortune 500 company wants to roll out Claude to 100,000 employees, the systems and products that you design are what make it possible.

This is a high‑agency role that spans multiple efforts within Enterprise. You'll design Claude Enterprise to be widely distributed, support our governance and connectivity story, design abstractions that other teams want to adopt, help the team evaluate trade‑offs, and be the engineer in the room who can interface with executives from the world’s largest companies.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi‑year technical strategy, including our distributability and multi‑cloud strategy
• Identify and personally lead the highest‑complexity, highest‑impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Serve as one of the primary technical decision‑makers for major architectural decisions with org‑wide scope
• Partner other teams such as Inference and Platform for foundational systems; Customer Success for the voice of customers, with Infrastructure and Safeguards for security, privacy, and responsible deployment
• Mentor and develop Staff‑level engineers across the org
• Drive alignment across Product, GTM, Customer Success, and beyond while proactively identifying and addressing systemic technical risks

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 10+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or Senior Staff level
• Have demonstrably shaped technical strategy for large‑scale Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise SaaS companies
• Drive the highest‑leverage technical outcomes without formal authority—you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust
• Have deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths
• Are highly effective across org boundaries—you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike
• Bring strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity

Technical Stack

• Languages: Python, Golang, Rust
• Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes
• Databases: PostgreSQL (AlloyDB), Vector Stores, Firestore, Spanner
• Tools: Feature Flagging, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Claude Code

Annual Salary

$405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.