Staff Software Engineer Data Infrastructure

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

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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 secure, scalable data infrastructure for governance, financial reporting, cloud storage, and data-platform workloads. You may design access controls and audit logging, develop pipelines and warehouses, strengthen disaster recovery, or scale processing infrastructure while optimizing performance, reliability, security, and cost.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software-engineering experience building data infrastructure, storage systems, or distributed systems
  • 3+ years leading large-scale complex projects or teams
  • Ability to set technical direction
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
  • Infrastructure-as-code and cloud-platform experience
  • Ability to balance performance, cost, security, and maintainability
  • Collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement access-control, permission-management, audit-logging, and compliance infrastructure
  • Build and maintain financial data pipelines and warehouses for reporting
  • Own reliability for revenue, usage, and business-metrics systems
  • Architect disaster-recovery, backup, and replication systems for cloud storage
  • Scale data-processing infrastructure and enable self-service analytics
  • Optimize query performance and manage infrastructure costs

Benefits

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