# Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: New York City, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$485,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

We're seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to join our Distributed Systems team at Anthropic, a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. You'll play a key role in developing and maintaining our AI systems, focusing on safety and reliability.

## Responsibilities

- Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from API partners and implement automated enforcement actions.

- Deploy and manage these systems across multiple clouds, ensuring consistency and observability.

- Design and harden the sandboxed runtime for AI agents, focusing on isolation, network egress controls, and audit logging.

- Manage cost and capacity for large volumes of long-running agent work, setting and meeting service-level objectives.

- Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and security teams to integrate new detection capabilities.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.

- Proficiency in Python, Distributed Systems, and Infrastructure as Code.

- Experience across multiple cloud providers or with provider-agnostic infrastructure.

- Background in building and operating large-scale, distributed infrastructure.

- Familiarity with sandboxing and isolation technologies or systems languages like Rust.

- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of software engineering experience.

- Experience handling sensitive or regulated data with strict access controls.

- Background in running LLM-based agents in production or working with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection.

## Logistics

- Annual salary: $320,000 - $485,000 USD.

- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time expected.

- Visa sponsorship available.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation and benefits.

- Optional equity donation matching.

- Generous vacation and parental leave.

- Flexible working hours.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Distributed Systems
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Providers
- Sandboxing
- Isolation Technologies
- Rust

### Nice to have
- LLM-based Agents
- Integrity Detection
- Spam Detection
- Fraud Detection
- Abuse Detection

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