Senior / Staff+ Software Engineer - Autonomous Agent Infrastructure

Anthropic
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 320,000 - 485,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Python","Go","Rust","Containers","GVisor","Firecracker","V8 isolates","Cloud Native","Security","Observability"]

Join the Agent Infrastructure team to design and build sandboxed compute environments for Claude, create state management for long-running agent tasks, and implement secure authentication/authorization and observability. You’ll operate at the intersection of distributed systems, security engineering, and product, shaping greenfield infrastructure with immediate impact while collaborating with product and research teams.

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Anthropic
Anthropic
7 months ago

Senior / Staff+ Software Engineer - Autonomous Agent Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Join the Agent Infrastructure team to design and build sandboxed compute environments for Claude, create state management for long-running agent tasks, and implement secure authentication/authorization and observability. You’ll operate at the intersection of distributed systems, security engineering, and product, shaping greenfield infrastructure with immediate impact while collaborating with product and research teams.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build sandboxed compute environments where Claude can safely execute code, access tools, and interact with external services
  • •Build state management systems for long-running agent tasks—handling checkpoints, recovery, and resumption across failures
  • •Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for delegated access—enabling Claude to act on behalf of users securely
  • •Create observability and debugging tools for agent execution—understanding what Claude did, why, and how to make it better
  • •Partner closely with product and research teams to define what’s possible and ship it

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 320,000 - 485,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Have 6+ years of experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform services at the hyper scale
  • •Comfortable building Cloud Native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • •Care deeply about security, isolation, and building systems that fail safely
  • •Have experience with containers, sandboxing, or secure execution environments (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, V8 isolates)
  • •Write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, Rust, or similar
Experience:6+ yearsDistributed systemsInfrastructurePlatform servicesCloud nativeSecurity engineering
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:PythonGoRustContainersGVisorFirecrackerV8 isolatesCloud NativeSecurityObservability
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoRustGCPAWSAzureContainersSandboxingObservabilitySecurityLinuxEBPFContainer runtimesTemporalAirflowStep Functions

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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