Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases
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
- $320,000 — $485,000
- Posted
- July 7, 2026
About this job
About the Role We're looking for experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure that powers Claude's products and Anthropic's research. As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you'll architect and operate the systems that let millions of users interact with Claude while also supporting frontier AI research workloads. You'll help set the database strategy for Anthropic: designing systems that handle billions of API requests, building storage that runs cleanly across GCP, AWS, and a range of deployment models, and creating the reliable data layer that lets research move fast. The Databases team spans three areas: the core database platform (data plane and control plane), data movement (migrations, backfill, and change data capture), and caching.…
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