320K–485K USD / year
Software Engineer, Sandboxing
OtherHybrid — San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Published on 2026-10-01
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About this role
As a Software Engineer on the Sandboxing team, you will design and operate infrastructure that runs untrusted code and agent workloads. The role involves improving performance and isolation, collaborating with various teams, and addressing system-level issues.
About the company
Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.
The team
Sandboxing team
Stack
LinuxRustCC++GoKVMQEMUFirecracker
What you'll do
- Design and operate sandboxing infrastructure
- Improve sandbox startup time and throughput
- Strengthen isolation across compute and network
- Investigate performance and security issues
- Build monitoring and debugging tools
- Support reinforcement learning environments
- Partner with security teams for threat modeling
- Work with cloud providers on hardware needs
What we're looking for
- Experience in Linux systems programming
- Strong programming skills in systems languages
- Knowledge of virtualization/container technologies
- Understanding of Linux resource management
- Experience debugging performance issues
- Ability to work in unfamiliar codebases
- Strong communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-tenant sandboxes
- Knowledge of OS-level security hardening
- Experience with kernel tracing tools
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Experience with AI agent sandboxes
- Technical lead or mentoring experience