Anthropic is looking to hire backend/platform software engineers to build foundational primitives that accelerate product development across the company, focusing on areas like billing, product platform capabilities, and identity/authentication infrastructure to support rapid growth and ensure reliability and scalability of AI systems.
Requirements
- Have 6+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
- Have strong coding skills and experience with service-oriented architectures
- Have worked with NLP and ML models and understand their capabilities and limitations
- Have experience with REST APIs
- Have experience with React and Frontend frameworks
- Have built billing platforms or payment systems
- Experience with distributed systems that need to be both fast and correct: real-time tracking, revenue reconciliation across payment providers, and ledger systems that ensure accuracy at scale
Responsibilities
- Build and scale platform components to handle Anthropic’s rapid growth
- Design and architect platform components that are composable and deliver value for a variety of use cases
- Collaborate closely with product teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that accelerate their feature delivery
- Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful
- Set technical direction and vision for various product and platform features
- Partner with research to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs
- Build and operate the billing infrastructure that powers all of Anthropic's products
Other
- Have worked in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1
- Take full ownership of your work, navigate ambiguity effectively, and proactively overcome obstacles to deliver results
- Are comfortable diving into any part of the system, whether it's infrastructure, services, or product frontends, to deliver effective solutions
- Enjoy working with a fast-paced team tackling cutting-edge problems in AI safety and conversational AI
- Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
