Staff or Senior Software Engineer Cloud Inference
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Anthropic
Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and own backend services that deliver inference across cloud providers. You will create deployment automation and cross-provider abstractions, improve capacity planning and request routing, and use production observability data to resolve performance, cost, and reliability issues.
Requirements
- Significant software engineering experience with high-performance large-scale distributed systems
- Experience building or operating services on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, or container orchestration exposure
- Experience collaborating with internal teams and external partners
- Ability to learn new technologies, hardware platforms, and provider ecosystems
- End-to-end ownership of technical problems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend services and infrastructure across cloud service providers
- Work with internal teams and cloud service provider partners to launch and operate serving stacks
- Build and evolve CI/CD validation and deployment pipelines
- Design interfaces and tooling abstractions for cross-provider inference management
- Contribute to capacity planning, autoscaling, and workload routing strategies
- Analyze observability data and remediate performance bottlenecks, cost anomalies, and regressions
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
