# Staff+ Software Engineer, Storage + Transfer

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $1-$2 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to lead the development of its storage infrastructure. You will design, secure, operate, scale, govern, and optimize blob storage platforms at hyper-scale. Your expertise will guide high-stakes architectural decisions, ensuring stored data is securely and speedily accessible across varying infrastructures and regions.

## Key Responsibilities

- Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic's storage layers

- Build strong relationships with users and partner teams to understand access patterns and unique requirements

- Partner with CSPs, networking, and datacenter teams on infrastructure primitives

- Translate user needs into scalable system designs and drive alignment

- Make principled tradeoffs across durability, availability, consistency, performance, security, and cost

- Break large problems into deliverable milestones and lead cross-functional teams

- Work across backend stacks, abstraction layers, and clients to provide simple interfaces

- Plan and lead large migrations of critical workloads with minimal disruption

- Participate in and improve operations, including SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and incident response

- Stay hands-on in code and production, especially in critical and complex areas

## Requirements

- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed storage systems

- Deep understanding of storage system fundamentals, including replication, erasure coding, consistency models, and security approaches

- Experience serving as an owner, tech lead, or architect for large, complex infrastructure systems

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability in at least one systems language

- Experience operating and steering critical infrastructure at scale, including security, on-call, incident response, and cost efficiency

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation and benefits

- Optional equity donation matching

- Generous vacation and parental leave

- Flexible working hours

- Lovely office space

## Skills

### Required
- distributed storage systems
- storage system fundamentals
- systems languages
- infrastructure security
- incident response
- capacity planning

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