Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Engineer to anchor their Enterprise pillar, designing systems to make Claude enterprise-ready. This role involves defining multi-year technical strategies and leading high-complexity engineering initiatives.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of experience in engineering, shaping technical strategy for SaaS, and expertise in distributed systems. The position offers a hybrid work policy and a competitive salary ranging from $405,000 to $485,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience at Staff or Senior Staff level.
• Experience in shaping technical strategy for Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise SaaS.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture.
• Strong influence and collaboration across organizational boundaries.
• Domain expertise in enterprise security, identity, compliance, governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year technical strategy.
• Lead high-impact engineering initiatives.
• Make major architectural decisions with org-wide scope.
• Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers.
• Align across Product, GTM, and Customer Success.

Skills

Engineering experience

Technical strategy

Distributed systems expertise

API architecture

Leadership skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Golang

Rust

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

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 tradeoffs, 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 cannot sponsor for every role and every candidate. If an offer is made, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.