Anthropic
Technology
Staff+Sr.SoftwareEngineer,CloudInference
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“Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference at Anthropic. Skills: Cloud inference, Backend services, Distributed systems. Design backend services and infrastructure. Build backend services and infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase service scale; Accelerate new model launches; Accelerate new feature launches; Meet safety standards; Meet performance standards; Meet security standards
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Significant software engineering experience, Background in distributed systems, Experience building/operating services on AWS, GCP, or Azure, Exposure to Kubernetes or Infrastructure as Code, Experience working with external partners
Nice to Have
Direct experience working with CSPs, Hands-on capacity management experience, Solid understanding of multi-region deployments, Proficiency in Python or Rust
What You'll Do.
Design backend services and infrastructure
Build backend services and infrastructure
Own backend services and infrastructure
Work cross-functionally with teams
Work with CSP partners
Stand up serving stack
Resolve operational issues
Influence provider roadmaps
Build CI/CD automation systems
Evolve CI/CD automation systems
Ship new model versions
Design interfaces across CSPs
Design tooling abstractions across CSPs
Enable cost-effective inference management
Reduce per-platform complexity
Contribute to capacity planning
Contribute to autoscaling strategies
Contribute to workload routing strategies
Analyze observability data
Identify performance bottlenecks
Identify cost anomalies
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Internal teams; External partners; CSP partners
Full Job Description
About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role The Cloud Inference team scales and optimizes Claude to serve the massive audiences of developers and enterprise companies across AWS, GCP, Azure, and future cloud service providers (CSPs). We own the end-to-end product of Claude on each cloud platform, from API integration and intelligent request routing to inference execution, capacity management, and day-to-day operations. Our engineers are extremely high leverage: we simultaneously drive multiple major revenue streams while optimizing one of Anthropic's most precious resources: compute. As we expand to more cloud platforms, the complexity of managing inference efficiently across providers with different hardware, networking stacks, and operational models grows significantly. We need product-minded backend engineers who can navigate these platform differences, design the services and abstractions that work across providers, and make architectural decisions that keep us reliable and cost-effective at massive scale. Your work will increase the scale at which our services operate, accelerate our ability to reliably launch new frontier models and innovative features to customers across all platforms, and ensure our LLMs meet rigorous safety, performance, and security standards. Key responsibilities Design, build, and own backend services and infrastructure that serve Claude across multiple CSPs, accounting for differences in compute hardware, networking, APIs, and operational models Work cross-functionally with internal inference, product API, systems, and security teams, among others, and with CSP partners to stand up the full serving stack on new cloud platforms, resol
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