What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Platform position at Anthropic?
About the role:
We are looking for backend / platform software engineers to join our Product Foundations org. We build foundational primitives that help accelerate product development across Anthropic. Some examples of what we own and maintain are our core sampling pipeline, our rate limiting platform, and our RAG platform.
We have multiple teams that are currently hiring. Team placement occurs after the interview process, taking into account your interests and experience alongside organizational needs. This flexible approach allows us to match talented engineers with the platform efforts where they'll have the greatest impact and growth potential:Product Platform: We provide a set of stable, powerful, and easy to use shared product capabilities leveraged by the Claude.ai, API and other internal product and research teams. You’ll work on our core platform components like rate limiting, LLM sampling and multimodal processing. Our mandate includes developing reusable components, improving system performance, and creating scalable abstractions that accelerate product development across the organization while maintaining high standards for reliability and security.
Accounts Platform:
We build and maintain the critical infrastructure that powers identity and authentication across Anthropic's product suite. We work closely with product teams, security, support, and trust & safety as customers. We create scalable solutions for user authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and single sign-on that form the backbone of our company's identity management operations. We maintain a user-centric approach, building reliable systems that our users and company can depend on as we tackle complex challenges at the intersection of security, scalability, and user experience.Billing Platform:
We build and maintain the core billing platform that powers all of Anthropic’s products. You will lead the design and implementation of our billing infrastructure, working at the intersection of our core product, financial systems, and customer-facing features. This role is crucial for scaling our revenue operations, ensuring a seamless customer experience and enables the launch of new and innovative products with complex billing requirements.
Apps Platform:
We build the core platform primitives that are needed to enable fast and AI-first product development for Claude.ai on web and Claude Mobile. When successful, this team directly unblocks new features and simplifies our core product experiences. This team also stays close to its customers in Product and helps ensure that we’re building the right primitives to scale our AI-first product development efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Build and scale platform components to handle Anthropic’s rapid growth
- Design and architect platform components that are composable and deliver value for a variety of use cases
- Collaborate closely with product teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that accelerate their feature delivery
- Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful
- Set technical direction and vision for various product and platform features
- Partner with research to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs
You might be a good fit if you:
- Have 6 years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
- Have strong coding skills and experience with service-oriented architectures
- Have worked in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1
- Take full ownership of your work, navigate ambiguity effectively, and proactively overcome obstacles to deliver results
- Are comfortable diving into any part of the system, whether it's infrastructure, services, or product frontends, to deliver effective solutions
- Enjoy working with a fast-paced team tackling cutting-edge problems in AI safety and conversational AI
- Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
- Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
Strong candidates may also:
- Have worked with NLP and ML models and understand their capabilities and limitations
- Have experience with REST APIs
- Have experience with React and Frontend frameworks
