Staff Software Engineer Claude Managed Agents

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/24/2026

San Francisco, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will build and operate systems for durable agent sessions, storage, sandbox orchestration, streaming, scheduling, and isolation. You will evolve agent harnesses and evaluations, ship agent-platform capabilities, design stable APIs and SDKs, and own work from design through on-call operations.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering experience
  • Experience building and operating stateful, long-running, or high-throughput production systems
  • Knowledge of durability, consistency, failure modes, and cost
  • Strong API design and product sense
  • Experience owning work through design, deployment, operations, and on-call
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience
  • Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate durable session, event storage, sandbox orchestration, streaming, scheduling, and multi-tenant isolation systems
  • Build evaluation infrastructure for agent harness quality
  • Ship agent capabilities including outcome-driven execution, orchestration, memory, observability, and tracing
  • Design stable APIs, SDKs, and CLI interfaces
  • Own systems from design through deployment, operations, and on-call support

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
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