Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching
$320K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum years correlate with internal job level; preferred: 10+ years building and scaling distributed infrastructure, with 3+ years leading large-scale projects or teams.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Build and lead Anthropic’s managed caching infrastructure, including Redis services, client libraries, and cache invalidation systems used across its products and research.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and design, build, and operate caching infrastructure across cloud and deployment environments.
- Develop client libraries, CDC-driven cache invalidation, and observability and debugging tools.
- Optimize latency, reliability, cache hit rates, and cost, while partnering with product and research teams.
What they ask for
- Significant experience building and operating production distributed systems.
- Deep knowledge of caching architectures, invalidation, consistency tradeoffs, and failure modes.
- Production experience with Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores; proficiency in a systems programming language or Python at scale.
- Track record leading large infrastructure projects and balancing delivery speed with production reliability.
Nice to have
- 10+ years building and scaling distributed infrastructure, including 3+ years leading large-scale projects or teams.
- Experience with managed infrastructure, CDC or streaming, cache client libraries, large-scale Redis offerings, multi-cloud deployments, or related open-source projects.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Redis, Memcached, Go, Rust, Java, C++, Python, Debezium
AI focus
The role builds caching infrastructure that supports Anthropic’s AI products and research; prior AI/ML infrastructure experience is not required.
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