Staff Software Engineer Product Sandboxing

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 scope complex projects, drive alignment across ambiguous problem spaces, and make architectural decisions for a secure execution platform. You will partner with research to productize capabilities and build scalable, reliable systems for containerized workloads and developer-facing products.

Requirements

  • Build scalable distributed systems as a backend or platform engineer
  • Apply service-oriented architecture, networking, and systems design principles
  • Use Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems languages
  • Work with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, or multi-cloud networking
  • Own work from design through deployment and operations
  • Make independent technical decisions in ambiguous environments
  • Build robust, scalable, and usable platform solutions

Responsibilities

  • Scope complex multi-month projects
  • Drive cross-organizational alignment in ambiguous problem spaces
  • Make architectural decisions for product scaling
  • Partner with research to productize capabilities
  • Build secure, scalable, and reliable systems for containerized workloads

Benefits

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