Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise
Staff+ Software Engineer anchoring Anthropic's Enterprise pillar to make Claude enterprise-ready at scale for Fortune 500 customers. Defines multi-year technical strategy (distributability, multi-cloud), leads high-impact cross-team initiatives, makes org-wide architectural decisions, and partners across teams on security, governance, and infrastructure. Requires 10+ years experience shaping strategy at large-scale CSP or Enterprise SaaS companies, deep distributed systems and enterprise domain expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define and drive multi-year technical strategy, including our distributability and multi-cloud strategy.
- Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Serve as one of the primary technical decision-makers for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope.
- Partner with other teams such as Inference and Platform for foundational systems; Customer Success for the voice of customers, with Infrastructure and Safeguards for security, privacy, and responsible deployment.
- Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers across the org.
- Drive alignment across Product, GTM, Customer Success, and beyond while proactively identifying and addressing systemic technical risks.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or Senior Staff level.
- Demonstrably shaped technical strategy for large-scale Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise SaaS companies.
- Drive the highest-leverage technical outcomes without formal authority—you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths.
- Highly effective across org boundaries—you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike.
- Strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Python, Golang, Rust.
- Experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes.
- Experience with PostgreSQL (AlloyDB), Vector Stores, Firestore, Spanner.
- Experience with Feature Flagging, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Claude Code.
Compensation
- Annual Salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD
Skills
Python, Go, Rust, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Postgres, Distributed Systems, Api Architecture, Security, Identity, Compliance, Governance
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