Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Acceleration

About this role

Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Acceleration

San Francisco, CA +2Full-timeLead & above

Checked 6h ago

Posted 14 Oct 2026 on Anthropic's careers page

What the interview will test

Software Engineer interviews are usually assessed on

• Coding Proficiency
• System Design Fundamentals
• Debugging & Root Cause Analysis
• Data Modeling & Storage
• Testing & Quality Engineering
• Stakeholder Communication

Practicing for this role builds your session around these skills, with this posting's own requirements folded in.

What you'd do

• Design, build, and operate the tools that help product teams ship faster
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, and make sure its hardest problems get solved, by you or through others
• Define what it means to trust a change, especially changes written by Claude, and build the tooling that holds the bar throughout the software development lifecycle
• Build agents that take on repetitive engineering work, such as diagnosing failures, fixing broken tests, and running migrations
• Embed with partner teams to find their biggest sources of friction, validate a solution with them, and turn the fix into a product other teams can adopt
• Move between building new tools and improving the shared systems that teams already depend on, as priorities shift

What they're looking for

• Experience building and operating backend services or infrastructure in production, in Go, Python, Rust, or TypeScript
• Deep experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, test infrastructure, or deployment systems
• Experience leading large, complex technical projects across teams, from an ambiguous problem to a solution developers adopt
• Clear written and verbal communication, with experience supporting internal partner teams
• Interest in Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI

Nice to have

• Experience at a startup or on a similarly small team, taking a product from zero to one and talking directly to your users
• Substantial experience with agents that do engineering or other technical work
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools, developer-facing services, GitHub automation, or open source developer tools
• Experience measuring developer productivity and using the data to decide what to build
• A point of view on how software engineering changes as agents write more of the code

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