Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2>About the Role</h2> <p>We're looking for experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure that powers Claude's products and Anthropic's research. As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you'll architect and operate the systems that let millions of users interact with Claude while also supporting frontier AI research workloads.</p> <p>You'll help set the database strategy for Anthropic: designing systems that handle billions of API requests, building storage that runs cleanly across GCP, AWS, and a range of deployment models, and creating the reliable data layer that lets research move fast.</p> <p>The Databases team spans three areas: the core database platform (data plane and control plane), data movement (migrations, backfill, and change data capture), and caching. We're hiring across all three.</p> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Drive the technical direction for database solutions used across Product and Research</li> <li>Design and implement database solutions that scale to support millions of users across Claude's product ecosystem</li> <li>Build and scale database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance</li> <li>Build the database platform that lets Anthropic engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling.</li> <li>Architect data storage solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, third-party deployments, and other environments</li> <li>Develop database infrastructure that serves both product and research workloads with different performance characteristics</li