# Staff+ Software Engineer, Storage + Transfer at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5428950008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-staff-software-engineer-storage-transfer/

## About the role

Storage plays an essential role at Anthropic across research, development, product, and running the business. Our exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage infrastructure underpins training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term data retention. Our storage needs are growing rapidly with Claude. To keep up, we're looking for engineers who have designed, secured, operated, scaled, governed, and optimized blob storage platforms at hyper-scale.

## What they're looking for

- Experience designing, building, and operating a large-scale distributed storage system in production, such as an object store, distributed file system, or block storage service
- Experience serving as an owner, tech lead, or architect for a large, complex infrastructure system that orgs and customers depend on
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability in at least one systems language, such as C++, Rust, Go, or Java
- Experience operating and steering critical infrastructure at scale, including security, on-call, incident response, capacity planning, customer support, and cost efficiency
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment on technical direction and user-facing across multiple orgs and stakeholders
- The annual compensation range for this role is listed below

Tags: Software Engineering - Infrastructure