Staff Software Engineer, Support Technology
2 days agoHeadSalary: 405K - 485KSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAHybridFull TimeBackendJobs by Anthropic
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AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Series F+Recently funded55 current maintainers49 active leads17 new active leads25 lead step-downs8 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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 be an early engineer on the Support Technology team, writing a lot of code and leading across teams. You will build agents that find root causes of customer problems, create tools and audited workflows for Claude-powered support agents, build a scalable support platform, extend support to enterprise and partner channels, and raise engineering standards.
Requirements
- Deep backend and distributed systems skills including APIs, data models, event-driven systems and third-party integrations
- Experience building production software, including technical lead roles on multi-team projects
- Experience building systems where correctness, access control and auditability matter
- Vision for how models like Claude can improve customer support
- Judgment about when to ship a simple fix versus invest in a platform
- Track record of leading without formal authority
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Build agents that spot where customers get stuck and drive root-cause fixes
- Build tools, APIs and audited workflows for Claude-powered support agents with evals and guardrails
- Create a scalable support platform and data to measure outcomes
- Extend support to enterprise, admin and partner-sold customers
- Set standards for reliability, observability, testing and rollouts and mentor engineers
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Visa sponsorship
