Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity

Anthropic
San Francisco, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 405,000 - 485,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Cross-org alignment","Technical decision-making","Ownership","Consensus building"]

Build and operate the core connectivity infrastructure for external tool calls, including the MCP proxy and OAuth/token management systems that keep connections authenticated. Own reliability through SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems for infrastructure used by internal and external partners. Design enterprise admin controls and permission models, and contribute to the MCP standard and official Python/TypeScript SDKs.

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Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity

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Job Summary

Build and operate the core connectivity infrastructure for external tool calls, including the MCP proxy and OAuth/token management systems that keep connections authenticated. Own reliability through SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems for infrastructure used by internal and external partners. Design enterprise admin controls and permission models, and contribute to the MCP standard and official Python/TypeScript SDKs.
Location: San Francisco, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate the MCP proxy and OAuth/token management systems that keep connections authenticated.
  • •Own reliability for external and partner-dependent infrastructure, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
  • •Build admin controls and permission models that let enterprise IT govern what agents can do.
  • •Contribute to the MCP standard and its ecosystem, including the spec and official Python and TypeScript SDKs.
  • •Scope complex multi-month projects and drive cross-org alignment while iterating based on outcomes and dogfooding in consuming products.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 405,000 - 485,000 annually
Perks:Parental LeavePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience as a backend or platform engineer.
  • •Experience operating production distributed systems with reliability, observability, and incident response at scale.
  • •Ability to take a product-focused approach to platform work and deliver robust, scalable, easy-to-use solutions.
  • •Can navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions independently, including in 0→1 settings.
  • •Excellent communication skills to build consensus across teams and time zones.
Experience:Distributed systemsPlatform engineeringAI tools
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCross-org alignmentTechnical decision-makingOwnershipConsensus building
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OAuthPythonTypeScriptMCPSDK

Company Brief

Anthropic
Develops large-scale AI systems and safety research to create reliable, steerable, and interpretable AI assistants and models for commercial and research applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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