# Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $405k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, CI/CD, Kubernetes, OAuth, Service Mesh, Observability, Multi-Cloud, RBAC, SSO, Ml Training, Llm Inference, Api Gateways, Python, Typescript Sdk
**Posted:** 2026-04-08

> Staff-level software engineer builds and scales platform infrastructure across teams, including dev tools, service infra, multicloud, auth, connectivity, API distributability, and ML adaptation systems. Requires 8+ years full-stack experience with Staff leadership, focusing on robust, scalable solutions in fast-paced AI environment.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

### Platform Acceleration
- Architect and optimize critical development infrastructure including dev environments, observability, and CI/CD pipelines
- Partner with product teams to understand workflows and eliminate friction points

### Service Infra
- Build and maintain core infrastructure: service mesh, observability systems, deployment pipelines, shared libraries
- Enable product teams to build and operate reliable services at scale

### Multicloud
- Build infrastructure for multi-cloud providers: cloud-agnostic tooling, cross-cloud networking, multi-region deployments

### Auth & Identity
- Build scalable solutions for user authentication, authorization, RBAC, SSO
- Work with product teams, security, support, trust & safety

### Connectivity
- Own MCP proxy, OAuth/token management, MCP spec, Python/TypeScript SDKs
- Handle token refresh at scale, admin controls, proxy infrastructure

### API Distributability
- Transform Claude API into cloud-native managed product: cross-cloud, on-prem, enterprise security/compliance

### Platform Intelligence
- Build training systems for customer-specific Claude adaptation
- Work on ML training infra, production ML pipelines

## You might be a good fit if you
- Have 8-10+ years of practical full-stack engineering experience, ideally 2+ years at Staff level
- Led design/delivery of complex user-facing products across full stack
- Technical expert in modern frontend/backend (e.g., **React**, **TypeScript**)
- Product-focused: robust, scalable, easy-to-use solutions
- Experience in fast-moving environments, building 0-to-1 products
- Invest in peer mentorship/growth
- Drive cross-team alignment, influence without authority
- Established engineering standards, component architectures, best practices
- Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

## Strong candidates may also
- Technical lead/architect for foundational platform systems
- Designed/scaled billing/payments at high volumes
- Containerization, secure execution environments
- Identity/access management (auth, SSO, RBAC) at enterprise scale
- **ML/AI** systems, **LLM** inference, model serving
- Multi-cloud, cross-region architectures
- API design focused on developer experience

## Similar roles

- [[Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Experimentation](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5019f14b-9e61-42dc-8785-8c491102e453) - Anthropic - San Francisco, CA - $405k – $485k/yr
- [[Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a301a0ca-b5e3-43d9-b15c-bbafbd846475) - Anthropic - San Francisco, CA - $405k – $485k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a5e1ea7e-e706-4c47-9396-c02ab749471a) - Anthropic - San Francisco, CA - $405k – $485k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5a672e92-7540-4fb4-aee3-5f2bb4cf9d90) - Anthropic - San Francisco, CA - $405k – $485k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/555674d3-0ef3-4c51-88bc-655c04cccda6) - Anthropic - San Francisco, CA - $405k – $485k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4f820f8a-1c61-4585-ab47-97b362f2b64c
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4f820f8a-1c61-4585-ab47-97b362f2b64c