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Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required))$405k - $485kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Data Infrastructure designs, operates, and scales secure, privacy-respecting systems that power data-driven decisions across Anthropic. This role focuses on building scalable data processing, storage, and access solutions, while balancing performance, cost, security, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

  • - Data Governance & Access Control: Design and implement robust access control systems ensuring only authorized users can access sensitive data. Build infrastructure for permission management, audit logging, and compliance requirements. Work on IAM policies, ACLs, and security controls that scale across thousands of users and systems.
  • - Financial Data Infrastructure: Build and maintain data pipelines and warehouses powering business-critical reporting. Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and availability for complex financial systems, including third party revenue ingestion pipelines; manage the external relationships as needed to drive upstream dependencies. Own the reliability of systems processing revenue, usage, and business metrics.
  • - Cloud Storage & Reliability: Architect disaster recovery, backup, and replication systems for petabyte-scale data. Ensure high availability and durability of data stored in cloud object storage (GCS, S3). Build systems that protect against data loss and enable rapid recovery.
  • - Data Platform & Tooling: Scale data processing infrastructure using technologies like BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, dbt, and Spark. Optimize query performance, manage costs, and enable self-service analytics across the organization.

Qualifications

  • - 10+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building data infrastructure, storage systems, or related distributed systems
  • - 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • - Ability to set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it
  • - Deep experience with at least one of:
  • - Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or similar
  • - Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
  • - Ability to navigate complex technical tradeoffs between performance, cost, security, and maintainability
  • - Excellent collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:Programming LanguagesInfrastructure as CodeCloud PlatformsData Technologies

Benefits

  • - Competitive compensation and benefits
  • - Optional equity donation matching
  • - Generous vacation and parental leave
  • - Flexible working hours
  • - Office space for collaboration
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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