Staff+ Software Engineer (Storage and Transfer)

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Fertility benefits

Paid parental leave (22 weeks)

Flexible paid time off

Mental health support

Competitive salary and equity

Job summary

Anthropic seeks an experienced Storage Architect to design, build, and operate a large-scale distributed storage system across multi-cloud environments. You will own architectural decisions, ensure security and reliability, and partner with research, training, and infrastructure teams to scale storage for Claude and future workloads.

You will lead complex migrations, drive cost-efficient storage strategies, and stay hands-on in code and production to deliver high-performance access across

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating a large-scale distributed storage system in production.
• Experience operating critical infrastructure at scale, including security, on-call, and incident response.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with cross-org alignment on technical direction and user-facing needs.
• Deep understanding of storage fundamentals: replication/erasure coding, durability, high availability, security, and multi-region access.

Responsibilities

• Own high-stakes architectural decisions and deliverables for secure, fast data access across infrastructures.
• Collaborate with CSPs, networking, and data center teams on storage primitives and scalability.
• Translate user needs into scalable system designs and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Lead large migrations of critical workloads with minimal user disruption.
• Stay hands-on in code and production to maintain reliability and performance.

Skills

Storage systems

Distributed storage

System architecture

C++

Rust

Go

Java

Leadership

Security

Incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

• Storage plays an essential role at Anthropic across research, development, product, and running the business
• Our exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage infrastructure underpins training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term data retention
• Our storage needs are growing rapidly with Claude. To keep up, we’re looking for engineers who have designed, secured, operated, scaled, governed, and optimized blob storage platforms at hyper-scale
• You’ll join a welcoming, collaborative, high-trust, high-velocity team that is devoted to our users and Anthropic’s mission
• You’ll bring deep experience, essential technical guidance, user-centric product sense, and hands-on significant contributions to help us evolve Anthropic’s storage capabilities while absorbing increasing volume and complexity
• You’ll own high-stakes architectural decisions and deliverables to make stored data securely and speedily accessible across varying infrastructures and regions
• You’ll collaborate closely with other orgs to drive world-class security, usability, reliability, and capacity/cost efficiency: both for the data we store, and the ways we make it accessible to power a wide range of workflows
• You’ll partner with research, training, infrastructure, business, and data teams to understand our storage needs and opportunities, today and in the future. You’ll drive strategic investments that uplevel Anthropic’s ability to ship safe, useful AI at speed
• Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic’s storage layers
• Build strong relationships with our users and partner teams, and deep understanding of their access patterns and unique security, usability, and business 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office

Experience designing, building, and operating a large-scale distributed storage system in production, such as an object store, distributed file system, or block storage serviceExperience operating and steering critical infrastructure at scale, including security, on‑call, incident response, capacity planning, customer support, and cost efficiencyStrong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment on technical direction and user‑facing across multiple orgs and stakeholdersDeep understanding of storage system fundamentals, including: Replication and erasure coding, consistency models, metadata management, durability, failure handling, high availability, access controls, identity models, security approaches, abstraction layers, network requirements, multi‑region considerationsStrong software engineering fundamentals and hands‑on coding ability in at least one systems language, such as C++, Rust, Go, or JavaExperience serving as an owner, tech lead, or architect for a large, complex infrastructure system that orgs and customers depend onMinimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experienceRequired field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experienceMinimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the positionWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification