Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle

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Company
Anthropic
Location
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle
Salary
$405,000 — $485,000
Posted
April 8, 2026

About this job

Anthropic is looking for experienced, product-minded engineers to own the backend systems that power user experiences across our API, Claude Code, and Claude.ai. You'll independently scope complex, multi-month projects through ambiguous problem spaces and lead peers through technical and product decisions; you'll drive alignment with product, peer engineering teams, and research to identify capability gaps and translate frontier model improvements into shipped products. You'll make architectural decisions that affect the reliability and scalability of systems serving hundreds of thousands of global users (including internal teams), and design processes that help your team operate effectively and never fail the same way twice - all while staying hands-on with the code and our models.…

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