Anthropic is looking to solve the problem of creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole, and is seeking an infrastructure engineer to design, operate, and scale secure, privacy-respecting data systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years building data infrastructure, storage systems, or related distributed systems
- Deep experience with at least one of: Cloud data platforms (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt), Access control systems, IAM, authentication/authorization at scale, Distributed storage systems, object storage (S3, GCS), disaster recovery
- Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
- Experience with security and compliance requirements (ITGC, GDPR, financial controls)
- Background in data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, or analytics infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native architectures
Responsibilities
- 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
- Build and maintain data pipelines and warehouses powering business-critical reporting
- Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and availability for complex financial systems
- Architect disaster recovery, backup, and replication systems for petabyte-scale data
- 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
Other
- At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas, but we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate
- Excellent collaboration skills - you work well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable with ambiguity and can independently scope and drive large projects
