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Staff Software Engineer, Support Technology

Join Anthropic as a Staff Software Engineer to enhance customer support technology and improve user experiences with AI systems.

Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Compensation
$405k–$485k/yr
Level
staff
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 12 hours ago

First seen on Joblaze 43 minutes ago

Last verified on the company career page 43 minutes ago

What you'll build

  • Build agents that spot customer issues
  • Create a reliable support platform
  • Build tools for support agents
  • Extend support to business customers
  • Set standards for reliability and observability

Must have

  • Deep backend and distributed systems skills
  • Experience building production software
  • Experience with correctness and access control
  • Vision for improving customer support with AI
  • Judgment on shipping fixes

Nice to have

  • 8+ years building backend or platform systems
  • Experience with billing or subscription systems
  • Experience with helpdesk platforms
  • Full-stack experience
  • Experience with enterprise features

Practical constraints

  • Expected to be in the office at least 25% of the time

Role intensity

60% hands-on coding

AI in the day-to-day

We expect Claude to handle more of each case over time, from diagnosing an issue to resolving it.

Requirements

Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Sponsorship available

Benefits

401k Match Unlimited PTO Equity/Stock Options Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will focus on enhancing customer support for Anthropic's AI product, Claude, by identifying and resolving issues that hinder user experience. Key skills include expertise in backend and distributed systems, as well as experience in building reliable support platforms and APIs. This position is ideal for a senior engineer with a strong background in leading complex projects and a vision for integrating AI into customer support. The team is dedicated to creating a seamless support experience, ensuring that customers receive timely and effective assistance.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 13, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page November 13, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
  • Starts above 95% of 213 comparable staff backend roles in United States we track (median $213,000 across 61 companies).
  • APIs appears in 5.5% of 291 comparable staff backend roles in United States; event-driven systems appears in 0.3% of 291 comparable staff backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Staff Software Engineer, Support Technology role remote?
It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the salary range?
Anthropic lists $405,000–$485,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Support Technology role.
Where is the role based?
Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: APIs, Billing, Data Pipelines, LLM-based systems, Payments, contact center platforms.
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, Support Technology role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

About Anthropic

About the role

Anthropic's products are growing fast in reach and complexity. Every new model, product, and channel brings problems no one predicted. We want to catch each issue as early as possible, get customers unblocked fast, and fix the root cause. The best experience is one where a customer never has to ask for help.

We are building a Support Technology engineering team to solve what stands between a customer and Claude, whether they want to use it but can't or are unhappy with their experience. That covers individual users, businesses, and customers who reach Claude through partners.

Our goal is a better product experience for everyone who uses Claude. We make it easy for customers to get help and talk to us, through Claude itself and via human specialists with the tools to solve their problems. We also determine why they needed help and fix the cause in the product.

Billing is a good example. When a charge is confusing, a payment fails, or a plan doesn't unlock, a customer should be able to reach us and get it resolved in one conversation. Then we want to learn why it happened and change the product, whether that's the subscription flow, the payment error, or the invoice, so the next customer never has to ask.

As one of the team's early engineers, you will set the technical direction and build the core systems behind this work. We expect Claude to handle more of each case over time, from diagnosing an issue to resolving it to flagging the product fix behind it. Success means customers run into fewer problems, get them truly solved when they do, and are happy with the help they receive, whether it comes from Claude or a person.

This is a hands-on role with high leverage. You will write a lot of code and lead across teams, since many fixes belong to other product teams. You will partner with our Product Manager, the Product Support team, and product engineering teams such as Billing Platform.

Key responsibilities

  • Improve the product experience at the root: Build agents that spot where customers keep getting stuck and find the root cause, then ship the fix or drive it with the owning team until customers stop running into the problem
  • Make our support agents reliable first responders: Build the tools, APIs, and safe, audited workflows our Claude-powered support agents use for common fixes, with evals, guardrails, and clean handoffs to people, and measure whether customers' problems actually get solved
  • Build the platform foundations: Create a reliable support platform that scales with our growth, including the experience and tools for customers and specialists, and the data that shows what customers are running into and whether our changes help
  • Support enterprise and partner channels: Extend support to business customers, admins, and partner-sold customers, including cases that start outside our own products
  • Raise the bar and build with Claude: Set standards for reliability, observability, testing, and rollouts, mentor engineers, and use Claude heavily in your own work

Minimum qualifications

  • 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
  • A clear vision for how capable models like Claude can improve customer support, and motivation to build it
  • Judgment about when to ship a simple fix and when to invest in a platform
  • Track record of leading without formal authority and getting other teams to own and ship fixes

Preferred qualifications

  • 8+ years building backend or platform systems in production, including 3+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • Experience building and improving customer-facing products with measurable impact
  • Experience with billing, payments, or subscription systems
  • Experience shipping LLM-based or agentic systems in production
  • Experience building with helpdesk or contact center platforms such as Intercom, Zendesk, or Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Experience building internal tools or platforms for operations teams such as support, risk, finance, or trust and safety
  • Experience building data pipelines for support or operations analytics
  • Full-stack experience, including web UIs for internal tools or customer-facing flows
  • Experience with enterprise features such as SSO, admin controls, or provisioning, or with partner and cloud marketplace integrations
  • Experience setting multi-year technical direction for an area and growing other senior engineers

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:
$405,000—$485,000 USD

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