Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Storage + Transfer
$320K–$405K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with the internal job level; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; field relevant to the role, 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
Leads the architecture, development, operation, and scaling of Anthropic’s storage infrastructure so data is secure, reliable, efficient, and accessible across systems and regions.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy and architecture for storage layers, making and documenting system tradeoffs.
- Lead cross-functional delivery and migrations, working with users, partner teams, cloud providers, networking, and datacenter teams.
- Stay hands-on in code and production; improve operations including SLOs, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, building, and operating a large-scale distributed storage system in production.
- Deep knowledge of storage fundamentals, including replication or erasure coding, consistency, metadata, durability, security, and multi-region considerations.
- Experience owning, leading, or architecting a large, complex infrastructure system; experience operating critical infrastructure at scale.
- Strong software engineering and hands-on coding ability in at least one systems language, such as C++, Rust, Go, or Java; strong communication skills.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD annual salary
Tools
C++, Rust, Go, Java
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