405K–485K USD / year
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Acceleration
BackendHybrid — San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Published on 2026-10-14
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About this role
The Staff+ Software Engineer will own the technical strategy for the Platform Acceleration team, focusing on developer experience and building internal tools for product engineers. Responsibilities include designing tools, solving complex problems, and improving developer workflows to enhance productivity.
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.
Stack
GoPythonRustTypeScript
What you'll do
- Own technical strategy and roadmap
- Design, build, and operate tools for Platform teams
- Define trust criteria for code changes
- Build agents for repetitive engineering tasks
- Embed with teams to identify and solve friction points
- Measure developer experience and use data for decisions
- Shift between building new tools and improving existing systems
What we're looking for
- Experience with large-scale backend services
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript
- Deep experience with developer tooling and CI/CD
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration
- Ability to lead complex technical projects
- Strong communication skills
- Interest in building safe AI systems
Nice to have
- Experience in startup environments
- Experience with engineering agents
- Building widely adopted CLI tools
- Depth in progressive delivery and observability
- Experience with large monorepos
- Full-stack ability for tool interfaces
- Perspective on AI and software engineering dynamics