Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 405.000 - 485.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Flexible working hours

Zusammenfassung

Anthropic Limited is seeking an experienced Platform Portability Engineer to design and build portable cross-cloud infrastructure. You will own delivery pipelines and collaborate with cloud providers to enable seamless deployment of Claude across multiple clouds.

You will mentor engineers on multi-cloud patterns, review designs for portability, and contribute to incident response while shaping the platform's ability to run safely and reliably at scale.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Experience across multi-cloud environments and cloud IAM models.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python/Go/Rust).
• Kubernetes experience and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Background in security, compliance, or data residency for regulated cloud environments.

Aufgaben

• Design and build portable abstractions for cross-cloud storage, messaging, and connectivity.
• Own end-to-end delivery of Claude on partner cloud platforms, including build, release, and validation pipelines.
• Lead cross-cloud patterns, mentor engineers, and review designs with cloud-portability implications.
• Collaborate with cloud partners and internal teams to implement native provider integrations.
• Participate in on-call rotations and develop postmortems and runbooks.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Python

Go

Rust

Security

On-call

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Jobbeschreibung

About Anthropic

Anthropic’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

Anthropic trains and serves Claude across multiple cloud providers and accelerator platforms. The Platform Portability team owns the abstractions, tooling, and deployment infrastructure that make this possible without every engineering and research team needing to become experts in different clouds.

As an engineer on Platform Portability, you'll design and build the systems that let us bring up new capacity, ship our platform to cloud provider platforms & marketplaces, and move workloads between providers with confidence. You'll work closely with our cloud partners on capabilities we need that don't exist yet, and with internal Compute, Inference, and Security teams to make "which cloud is this running on?" a question most engineers at Anthropic never have to ask. Your work directly determines how quickly and reliably we can put safe, frontier AI in front of users — wherever they are.

What you'll do

Our work splits into two workstreams, and we need your help across both.

Portable infrastructure.

We build the provider-agnostic abstractions for storage, messaging, and connectivity that let Anthropic's systems run on any cloud, and they have to hold up at the scale of frontier model inference. You'll design and build those abstractions, plus the tooling that lets internal teams provision, configure, and operate services across clouds through one consistent interface. You'll also hunt down the provider-specific assumptions hiding in our codebase and set the patterns that keep new ones from creeping in.

Claude on partner clouds.

We ship Claude onto third-party cloud platforms, and every launch has to be repeatable. You'll own that delivery end to end, including the build, release, and validation pipelines behind it. You'll work directly with engineering teams at our cloud partners and internal infrastructure stakeholders to land the features we need, debug platform issues, and influence their roadmaps. Expect to go deep on native integrations with each provider, and to do the cross-cutting work that keeps our platform consistent across all of them.

Across both, you'll shape how the rest of Anthropic builds for multiple clouds. You'll review designs with cloud-portability implications, mentor engineers across the org on multi-cloud patterns, and bring internal stakeholders into alignment through clear writing and conversation. You'll also take your turn in the on-call rotation, and you'll design the postmortems, runbooks, and incident response that help us never fail the same way twice.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

• Have a minimum of 8 years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems
• Own large-scale infrastructure systems and lead ambiguous, cross-team technical projects from design through production
• Run the same production workload across multiple cloud providers, including the migration or abstraction work that made it possible
• Understand how cloud IAM models and networking primitives (VPC peering, private connectivity, service mesh) differ across providers
• Write production code in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, Go, or Rust)
• Work confidently with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Understand ML infrastructure and supporting interconnects
• Ship software through hyperscaler marketplaces or managed-model platforms
• Bring a background in security, compliance, or data residency for regulated or sovereign cloud environments
• Care about the societal impacts of your work and Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI

Deadline to apply

None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Location Preference

Preference will be given to candidates based in NY, SEA, SF or the Bay Area given the current location of team.

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 encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. 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.

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