Anthropic is looking for experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure that powers both Claude's product offerings and Anthropic's research initiatives. The role aims to architect and operate database systems that enable millions of users to interact with Claude and support cutting-edge AI research, tackling database challenges at unprecedented scale.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of experience building and scaling database systems
- Possess deep expertise in distributed database architectures and OLTP systems at scale
- Have successfully scaled databases through massive growth at high-growth companies
- Deep expertise scaling PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, or similar database systems
- Experience with Redis, Temporal, vector databases, or async job processing frameworks
- Experience building multi-cloud or hybrid cloud database solutions
- Knowledge of database orchestration and automation at scale
Responsibilities
- Set 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
- Architect data storage solutions that work seamlessly 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
- Partner with product and research teams to understand data requirements and build infrastructure that accelerates innovation
- Optimize database performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at massive scale
Other
- Can balance the speed of a startup environment with the reliability needs of production systems
- Excel at technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration
- Are passionate about building the data layer that enables next-generation AI capabilities
- We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
