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Senior / Staff+ Software Engineer - Autonomous Agent Infrastructure

320k – 485kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYSeattle, WABackend EngineeringHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

Staff+ engineer building the agentic infrastructure layer for claude.ai: sandboxed execution, stateful task orchestration, and secure delegated access at scale.

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build sandboxed compute environments where Claude can safely execute code, access tools, and interact with external services
  • Build state management systems for long-running agent tasks, handling checkpoints, recovery, and resumption across failures
  • Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access, so Claude can act on behalf of users securely
  • Create observability and debugging tools for agent execution, so we understand what Claude did, why, and how to make it better
  • Partner closely with product and research teams to define what's possible and ship it

Minimum Qualifications

  • Experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at scale
  • Comfort building cloud native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Experience with containers, sandboxing, or secure execution environments (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, V8 isolates)
  • Write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar language
  • Care about security, isolation, and building systems that fail safely

Preferred Qualifications

  • Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield work where you help shape the architecture
  • Interest in problems that don't have existing playbooks
  • Experience building multi-tenant execution platforms or serverless infrastructure
  • Background in security engineering, sandboxing, or isolation technologies
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions)
  • Experience with state machines, checkpointing, or durable execution patterns
  • Low-level systems experience (Linux internals, eBPF, container runtimes)
Skills
PythonGoRustGCPAWSAzuregVisorFirecrackerV8 isolatesTemporalAirflowStep FunctionseBPFLinux internalscontainer runtimes
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