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Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
Data Infrastructure designs, operates, and scales secure, privacy-respecting systems that power data-driven decisions across Anthropic. Our mission is to provide data processing, storage, and access that are trusted, fast, and easy to use.
We're looking for infrastructure engineers who thrive working at the intersection of data systems, security, and scalability. You'll tackle diverse challenges ranging from building financial reporting pipelines to architecting access control systems to ensuring cloud storage reliability. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders while diving deep into cloud infrastructure primitives.
Within Data Infra, you may be matched to critical business areas including:
Have 10+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building data infrastructure, storage systems, or related distributed systems
Have 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
Can set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it
Have deep experience with at least of:
Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or similar
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
Can navigate complex technical tradeoffs between performance, cost, security, and maintainability
Have excellent collaboration skills - you work well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience with security and compliance requirements (ITGC, GDPR, financial controls)
Background in data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, or analytics infrastructure
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native architectures
Track record of improving data reliability, availability, or cost efficiency at scale
Knowledge of column-oriented databases, OLAP systems, or big data processing frameworks
Experience working in fintech, financial services, or highly regulated environments
Security engineering background with focus on data protection and access controls
Data: BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, Cloud Composer, dbt, Spark, Segment, Fivetran
Storage: GCS, S3
Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS
Languages: Python, Go, SQL
_ None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis._
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:$405,000—$485,000 USD##
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit http://anthropic.com/careers anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
How to apply for Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Anthropic?
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is $405,000 per annum.
What experience is required?
10+ years of experience is required.
Is this position still open?
Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco
