Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Acceleration

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 9/25/2026

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 own technical strategy for developer-platform tooling while remaining hands-on. You will build and operate systems that improve code delivery, define trust standards for changes, create agents for repetitive engineering work, work with partner teams to solve workflow friction, and use adoption data to prioritize improvements.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating large-scale backend services or distributed systems
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript
  • Experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, test infrastructure, or deployment systems
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration
  • Experience leading complex cross-team technical projects
  • Written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Own technical strategy and roadmap for your area
  • Design, build, and operate developer tools
  • Define and implement tooling for trusted code changes
  • Build agents that diagnose failures, fix tests, and run migrations
  • Embed with partner teams to identify and validate solutions
  • Measure developer experience and adoption
  • Improve shared systems and build new tools as priorities change

Benefits

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