Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability
$405K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum 8 years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems. The logistics section says years required correlate with internal job level requirements.
- 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 and provides an immigration lawyer.
About the job
Build and operate portable multi-cloud infrastructure and delivery systems to deploy Claude reliably across cloud providers and accelerator platforms.
What you'll do
- Design provider-agnostic abstractions and tooling for storage, messaging, connectivity, and cross-cloud operations.
- Own end-to-end build, release, and validation pipelines for deploying Claude on partner cloud platforms; collaborate with cloud partners and internal teams.
- Lead cross-team portability practices, mentor engineers, and contribute to on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
What they ask for
- At least 8 years of practical experience building and operating production distributed systems.
- Experience running production workloads across multiple cloud providers, including migration or abstraction work.
- Understanding of cloud IAM and networking primitives, plus confidence with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.
- Production coding experience in at least one general-purpose programming language.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping software through hyperscaler marketplaces or managed-model platforms.
- Background in security, compliance, or data residency for regulated or sovereign cloud environments.
Pay
$405,000 — $485,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Python, Go, Rust
AI focus
Build infrastructure and deployment systems supporting Claude training and inference across cloud providers and accelerator platforms.
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