Posted by employer 8 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 5 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 92% of 86 comparable staff backend roles in United States that list Go we track (median $209,912 across 35 companies). See Go salary trends
- Go appears in 35.3% of 309 comparable staff backend roles in United States; eBPF appears in 0.3% of 309 comparable staff backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure role remote?
- It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA.
- What's the salary range?
- Anthropic lists $320,000–$485,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure role.
- Where is the role based?
- Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Airflow, Azure, Firecracker, GCP, Go.
- Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Anthropic targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure role at Anthropic.
From the original posting
About Anthropic
About the role
Claude App Infrastructure owns the reliability, experience, and agentic capabilities of claude.ai. We're the platform team for Anthropic's flagship consumer product, responsible for the serving architecture that keeps Claude available at scale, the conversation experience, and the infrastructure that lets every product team at Anthropic ship into claude.ai safely and fast. When the product grows at hyper scale, we're the team that makes sure it feels the same or better.
Beyond the foundation, we're building the agentic layer that turns claude.ai from a chat surface into an execution surface: task execution, personalization, browser use, and server-side tools. This is where the next generation of the product gets built: the primitives that let Claude act in the world, not just respond. We believe reliability and velocity are the same problem, and our job is to build the systems that make both inevitable.
Key responsibilities
- Design and build sandboxed compute environments where Claude can safely execute code, access tools, and interact with external services
- Build state management systems for long-running agent tasks, handling checkpoints, recovery, and resumption across failures
- Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access, so Claude can act on behalf of users securely
- Create observability and debugging tools for agent execution, so we understand what Claude did, why, and how to make it better
- Partner closely with product and research teams to define what's possible and ship it
Minimum qualifications
- Experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at scale
- Comfort building cloud native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience with containers, sandboxing, or secure execution environments (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, V8 isolates)
- Write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar language
- Care about security, isolation, and building systems that fail safely
Preferred qualifications
- Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield work where you help shape the architecture
- Interest in problems that don't have existing playbooks
- Experience building multi-tenant execution platforms or serverless infrastructure
- Background in security engineering, sandboxing, or isolation technologies
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions)
- Experience with state machines, checkpointing, or durable execution patterns
- Low-level systems experience (Linux internals, eBPF, container runtimes)
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
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