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Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineer to design, build, and scale Anthropic's database infrastructure powering Claude's products and research across multi-cloud deployments, focusing on core database platform, data movement, and caching.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical direction for database solutions used across Product and Research
  • Design and implement database solutions that scale to support millions of users across Claude's product ecosystem
  • Build and scale database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance
  • Build the database platform that lets Anthropic engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling.
  • Architect data storage solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, third-party deployments, and other environments
  • Develop database infrastructure that serves both product and research workloads with different performance characteristics
  • Build data movement infrastructure (migration tooling, backfill, and change data capture pipelines) that safely consolidates and moves data across the organization
  • Design and operate caching infrastructure, including CDC-driven cache invalidation, that keeps Anthropic's hottest paths fast and correct
  • Partner with product and research teams to understand data requirements and build infrastructure that accelerates their work
  • Optimize database performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale
  • Make build-vs-buy decisions for database technologies

Qualifications

  • Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating production database or storage systems
  • Deep knowledge of distributed database architectures and OLTP systems at scale
  • Proficiency with SQL and at least one major relational or distributed database engine (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spanner, CockroachDB, DynamoDB)
  • 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

Skills

Required:Database architecture and designSQL proficiencyLeadership and collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
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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