Staff+ Software Engineer, Product Sandboxing

The role

You will build and run the secure execution environment for Claude's agentic capabilities. You will scope complex projects, drive cross-org alignment, and make architectural decisions to scale products.

What you will do

• Independently scope complex, multi-month projects
• Drive cross-org alignment through ambiguous problem spaces
• Make architectural decisions to shape how Anthropic builds and scales products
• Partner directly with research to productize cutting-edge capabilities
• Take full ownership of work from design through deployment and operations

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
• Strong fundamentals in service-oriented architectures, networking, and systems design
• Proficient in Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems languages
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and/or multi-cloud networking
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Nice to have

• Experience operating at tech lead level or equivalent
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native products, developer tools, or external developer facing products
• Experience having owned both the technical vision and execution of a foundational platform system end to end
• Experience operating in 0 to 1 and more mature team or company settings

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.