Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases at Anthropic

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA

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We’re seeking experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure powering Claude’s products and Anthropic’s research. As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you’ll architect and operate systems that handle billions of API requests, support multi‑cloud deployments across GCP, AWS, and other environments, and create a reliable data layer that enables rapid research progress.

Salary

USD 320,000 - 485,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating production database or storage systems
  • Deep knowledge of distributed database architectures and OLTP systems at scale
  • Proficiency with SQL and at least one major relational or distributed database engine (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spanner, CockroachDB, DynamoDB)
  • Track record of leading large, complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead
  • Ability to balance moving quickly with the reliability needs of production systems
  • Strong technical leadership and cross‑functional collaboration skills
  • 10+ years building and scaling database systems, with 3+ years leading large‑scale projects or teams
  • Experience scaling databases through periods of rapid growth at high‑growth companies
  • Experience operating Spanner, CockroachDB, TiDB, AlloyDB, or other globally distributed SQL databases in production
  • Experience with Redis, Temporal, vector databases, or async job processing frameworks
  • Experience with change data capture (Debezium or similar), large‑scale data migration, or streaming data infrastructure
  • Experience building multi‑cloud or hybrid cloud database solutions
  • Knowledge of database orchestration and automation at scale
  • Contributions to database internals, storage engines, or related open source projects

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical direction for database solutions used across Product and Research
  • Design and implement database solutions that scale to support millions of users across Claude's product ecosystem
  • Build and scale database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance
  • Build the database platform that lets Anthropic engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling
  • Architect data storage solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first‑party deployments, third‑party deployments, and other environments
  • Develop database infrastructure that serves both product and research workloads with different performance characteristics
  • Build data movement infrastructure (migration tooling, backfill, and change data capture pipelines) that safely consolidates and moves data across the organization
  • Design and operate caching infrastructure, including CDC‑driven cache invalidation, that keeps Anthropic's hottest paths fast and correct
  • Partner with product and research teams to understand data requirements and build infrastructure that accelerates their work
  • Optimize database performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale
  • Make build‑vs‑buy decisions for database technologies

Technologies

PostgreSQLMySQLSpannerCockroachDBDynamoDBTiDBAlloyDBRedisTemporalDebeziumAWSGCP

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