Staff Software Engineer Platform Connectivity
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AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/24/2026
San Francisco, United States
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
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate connectivity infrastructure for external tool calls, including an MCP proxy and OAuth and token-management systems. You will own reliability through SLOs, on-call work, incident response, and postmortems, while building enterprise controls and contributing to the MCP ecosystem.
Requirements
- Backend or platform engineering experience
- Experience using AI tools in software development
- Experience operating production distributed systems
- Reliability, observability, and incident-response knowledge
- Ability to own work from design through operations
- Cross-team communication and consensus-building skills
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate MCP proxy infrastructure
- Build OAuth and token-management systems
- Own SLOs, on-call operations, incident response, and postmortems
- Build enterprise admin controls and permission models
- Contribute to the MCP specification and Python and TypeScript SDKs
- Scope and deliver ambiguous cross-functional projects
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
