# Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching
**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Salary:** $320K-$485K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Redis, Memcached, Go, Rust, Java, C++, Python, GCP, AWS, Change Data Capture, Debezium, Distributed Systems, Client Libraries, SDKs
**Posted:** 2026-06-25
> Build and operate Anthropic's managed Redis caching layer and client libraries from the ground up. Drive technical direction for distributed caching infrastructure across multi-cloud environments with focus on consistency, performance, and developer experience.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities
- Drive the technical direction for caching infrastructure used across Product and Research
- Design, build, and operate a managed Redis fleet that scales to support millions of users across Claude's product ecosystem
- Build client libraries and developer-facing abstractions that make correct caching the default for Anthropic engineers
- Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation that keeps cached data consistent with source-of-truth databases
- Architect caching solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, and other environments
- Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability, and cost efficiency on Anthropic's hottest paths
- Build observability and tooling that makes cache behavior easy to understand and debug
- Partner with product and research teams to understand access patterns and build infrastructure that accelerates their work
- Make build-vs-buy decisions for caching technologies

## Minimum Qualifications
- Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating production distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of caching architectures, including invalidation strategies, consistency tradeoffs, and failure modes
- Experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores in production
- Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, C++) or Python at scale
- Track record of leading large, complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead
- Ability to balance moving quickly with the reliability needs of production systems
- Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills

## Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years building and scaling distributed infrastructure, with 3+ years leading large-scale projects or teams
- Experience building managed infrastructure platforms or internal services consumed by many engineering teams
- Experience with change data capture (Debezium or similar) or streaming data infrastructure
- Experience operating Redis Cluster, Valkey, ElastiCache, Memorystore, or similar managed offerings at scale
- Experience designing client libraries or SDKs for internal infrastructure
- Experience scaling infrastructure through periods of rapid growth at high-growth companies
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployments
- Contributions to caching systems, database internals, or related open source projects

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual Salary: $320,000—$485,000 USD
- Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours
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