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Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise (Platform)

Anthropic· Engineering & Design - Product
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San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY$405k - $485kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff+ Platform Engineer for Anthropic's Enterprise pillar, focusing on making Claude enterprise-ready at scale through identity, permissions, governance, connectivity, and data foundations; high-agency role involving strategic technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration with executives and security teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive multi-year technical strategy for foundational enterprise systems, including distributability and multi-cloud direction
  • Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams
  • Serve as a primary technical decision-maker for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope
  • Design the platform primitives—identity, permissions, governance, connectivity, and usage data—that other product teams build on
  • Partner with teams such as Inference and Platform on foundational systems, Customer Success for the voice of the customer, and Infrastructure and Safeguards on security, privacy, and responsible deployment
  • Mentor and develop senior engineers across the org, and drive alignment across Product, GTM, and Customer Success while proactively addressing systemic technical risks

Qualifications

  • Have 8+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or equivalent technical leadership level
  • Have deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths
  • Have shaped technical strategy at a Cloud Service Provider or large-scale Enterprise SaaS company
  • Bring strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity
  • Drive the highest-leverage technical outcomes without formal authority—you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust
  • Are highly effective across org boundaries—you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsAPI design and architectureTechnical leadershipEnterprise security, identity, governance

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 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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