Anthropic is looking to build and scale the database infrastructure that powers both Claude's product offerings and Anthropic's research initiatives, to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed database architectures and OLTP systems at scale
- Experience scaling 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
- Background at companies known for database excellence
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
- 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 communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
