Anthropic · 20 hours ago
Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Autonomous Agent Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$320K/yr - $485K/yr
6+ years expAnthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. They are seeking a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to build the infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, focusing on security, execution environments, and state management. This role involves collaboration with product and research teams to develop innovative AI capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Design and build sandboxed compute environments where Claude can safely execute code, access tools, and interact with external services
Build state management systems for long-running agent tasks—handling checkpoints, recovery, and resumption across failures
Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access—enabling Claude to act on behalf of users securely
Create observability and debugging tools for agent execution—understanding what Claude did, why, and how to make it better
Partner closely with product and research teams to define what's possible and ship it
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at the hyper scale
Comfortable building Cloud Native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure
Care deeply about security, isolation, and building systems that fail safely
Experience with containers, sandboxing, or secure execution environments (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, V8 isolates)
Comfortable with ambiguity—this is greenfield work, and you'll help define the architecture
Write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, Rust, or similar
Want to work on problems that don't have existing playbooks
At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Preferred
Experience building multi-tenant execution platforms or serverless infrastructure
Background in security engineering, sandboxing, or isolation technologies
Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions)
Experience with state machines, checkpointing, or durable execution patterns
Low-level systems experience (Linux internals, eBPF, container runtimes)
Benefits
Equity and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Company
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research company that focuses on the safety and alignment of AI systems with human values.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.74BKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGoogleAmazon
2025-09-02Series F· $13B
2025-05-16Debt Financing· $2.5B
2025-03-03Series E· $3.5B
Leadership Team
Dario Amodei
CEO & Co-Founder
Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder
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