Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity
Build and operate Anthropic’s connectivity platform, including MCP proxy infrastructure, OAuth and token management, enterprise controls, and reliability systems. The role requires strong backend or platform engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and the ability to lead complex architectural work across teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core connectivity infrastructure for external tool calls, including the MCP proxy and OAuth and token management systems.
- Own reliability for infrastructure used by internal teams and external partners, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- Build enterprise admin controls and permission models for governing agent capabilities.
- Contribute to the MCP standard and ecosystem, including the specification and official Python and TypeScript SDKs.
- Scope complex, multi-month projects and drive cross-organizational alignment through ambiguous problem spaces.
- Make architectural decisions that shape product development and scalability.
- Partner with research teams to productize new capabilities.
- Dogfood, deploy, operate, and iteratively improve platform products.
Requirements
- Experience as a backend or platform engineer.
- Experience operating production distributed systems at scale.
- Understanding of reliability, observability, and incident response.
- Product-focused approach to platform engineering.
- Ability to build robust, scalable, and easy-to-use solutions.
- Full ownership from design through deployment, operations, and iteration.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and make independent technical decisions.
- Experience in both early-stage and mature team or company environments is preferred.
- Excellent communication and consensus-building skills across teams and time zones.
- Familiarity with using AI tools in software development.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Generous vacation and parental leave.
- Flexible working hours.
- Office collaboration space.
- Visa sponsorship may be available depending on the role and candidate.
Skills
Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, OAuth, Mcp, Python, TypeScript, SDKs, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Incident Response, SLOs, Permission Models, Access Tokens, AI Tools
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