Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity
$405K–$485K
London, UK +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- London, UK
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job-level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if offered a role, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Build and operate Anthropic’s connectivity platform, enabling Claude products and enterprise customers to securely connect to external tools and systems.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate the MCP proxy and OAuth and token-management infrastructure; own reliability, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- Develop enterprise admin controls and permission models, and contribute to the MCP specification and official SDKs.
- Lead complex cross-organizational projects, make architectural decisions, and partner with research and product teams to deliver platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- Experience as a backend or platform engineer.
- Experience operating production distributed systems and understanding reliability, observability, and incident response at scale.
- Ability to scope complex projects, make independent technical decisions, and build consensus across teams.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with using AI tools in software development.
- Experience in both 0 → 1 and more mature team or company settings.
Pay
$405,000–$485,000 USD base salary
Tools
MCP, OAuth, Python, TypeScript
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