Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is looking for a Staff+ Engineer to lead the Enterprise pillar focused on making Claude enterprise-ready. In this influential role, you will collaborate with various stakeholders to define technical strategy and ensure the successful implementation of systems for large-scale deployment.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of engineering experience, expertise in distributed systems, and a track record of shaping technical strategy in Enterprise SaaS companies. The annual salary for this position ranges from $405,000 to $485,000 USD.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience at Staff or Senior Staff level.
• Experience influencing technical strategy for large-scale companies.
• Proficient in writing design docs and making architectural calls.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year technical strategy.
• Lead high-complexity engineering initiatives across teams.
• Make architectural decisions with organization-wide impact.

Skills

Engineering experience

Technical strategy shaping

Distributed systems expertise

API architecture

Collaboration across teams

Security and compliance domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Golang

Rust

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Datadog

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Enterprise is central to the company'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

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

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