What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Cloud Platform position at Anthropic?
About the role
We are seeking an experienced backend software engineer to join Anthropic’s Cloud Platform team. You will help architect, build, and scale Anthropic's cloud offerings that make our large language models available to customers across multiple platforms. Working across cloud ecosystems gives you a unique vantage point to identify and solve complex distributed systems challenges.
You will solve technical challenges in safety, security, efficiency, and reliability while collaborating strategically with major cloud partners to enable frontier AI capabilities. Your work will enable customers to integrate our AI capabilities in their applications.
Responsibilities
- Scale model serving infrastructure – You will architect and develop systems to meet growing demand while maintaining strict safety, security, efficiency, and reliability requirements across multiple cloud platform deployments.
- Optimize accelerator utilization – Accelerator chips are gold in the AI world. You will help measure and optimize the allocation of chips serving Anthropic's models, playing a key role in helping these precious resources go to their best possible use.
- Strategic external collaboration – You will work closely with major cloud platforms to implement and optimize frontier AI capabilities across their ecosystems, building strong technical partnerships that advance our long-term goals.
- Build and operationalize infrastructure – You will work to improve and extend the core infrastructure needed to package, test, and deploy Anthropic's inference technology across multiple platforms. This work is a force-multiplier as it accelerates our ability to reliably launch new models and features to customers.
- Implement trust and safety measures– AI safety is core to Anthropic's mission. You will help design and implement safety measures directly into our APIs and infrastructure to ensure consistent protection across all platforms.
- Contribute to Anthropic's core mission - with your innovative ideas and system architecture enhancements to build ever-better beneficial AI systems.
You may be a good fit if you
- Have 5-15 years of experience as a software engineer building and operating mission-critical backend systems at scale
- Have strong practical coding skills (including Python) and experience with complex distributed systems
- Are adept at designing highly observable code and systems that operate reliably at scale
- Take a customer-focused approach to building infrastructure, backend systems, and customer-facing APIs
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, early environment; comfortable with adapting priorities as driven by the rapidly evolving AI space
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort with a high degree of collaboration with both internal and external engineers and product managers
- Have a proclivity for "leaving it better than you found it": making things better without letting perfect be the enemy of good
- Are motivated by developing AI responsibly and safely
Strong candidates may also have experience with
- Designing and implementing large-scale API platforms
- Building products with LLM/AI components
- Experience developing software services in Rust
- Tools like Kubernetes, Docker, containerization tech
- Deep experience building services on AWS or GCP
- Code performance optimization or service cost optimization
- Holding the pager for a critical live site service or taking the role of incident manager
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
