Staff Software Engineer, Web Platform

Anthropic$320K — $405K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proficient in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript) and API design
  • Passionate about improving developer experience and productivity
  • Strong understanding of reliability, performance, and observability in production systems
  • Adaptable team player in fast-paced and collaborative environments
  • Willingness to take on responsibilities beyond assigned tasks
  • 5+ years in software engineering, focusing on shared platforms or infrastructure (preferred)
  • Experience with performance optimization and CI/CD processes (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Enhance developer efficiency by streamlining build, deploy, and testing processes
  • Identify and rectify latency issues while improving platform observability
  • Design and implement shared UI components and abstractions for product teams
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to address their needs and drive impactful platform investments
  • Maintain and improve documentation and tools for easier onboarding of engineers

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Hybrid work policy requiring 25% office presence
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion in hiring processes
  • Opportunities for professional growth within a rapidly expanding team
Full Job Description
About the role

Claude.ai is Anthropic's flagship consumer product, spanning web, mobile, desktop, and browser extensions-and it's growing fast. The Web Platform team owns the foundational layer that makes all of this possible: the shared infrastructure, components, APIs, and tooling that let every other product team at Anthropic ship quickly, reliably, and with confidence.

As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll be hands-on building the platform that other engineers depend on every day. This means designing and shipping shared components and design-system-level abstractions, evolving the backend-for-frontend (BFF) APIs that power our client applications, and improving the build, deploy, and observability systems that keep Claude.ai running smoothly across surfaces. Your work will directly shape how fast teams across Anthropic can innovate-and how stable their experiences are when they do.

This is a great fit if you care deeply about developer experience and want your engineering work to have outsized leverage: instead of shipping one feature, you're building the tools and systems that make dozens of features possible.
Key responsibilities
  • Improve developer velocity across the organization by reducing friction in our build, deploy, and testing pipelines
  • Work on performance and reliability: identify and resolve latency issues, improve observability, and help establish high standards that the rest of the platform team can build on
  • Design and build shared UI components, libraries, and abstractions that product teams across Anthropic use to ship consistently and efficiently on web and mobile
  • Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs, unblock them when possible, and shape platform investments around where the most impact is
  • Help maintain and evolve documentation and tooling that make the platform approachable for engineers joining or building on top of it
Minimum qualifications
  • Have strong practical skills in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript or comparable frameworks) and experience designing or consuming APIs that serve frontend applications
  • Care about developer experience and have a track record of building things that make other engineers more productive
  • Have solid instincts around reliability, observability, and performance-and enjoy operationalizing those instincts in production systems
  • Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners
  • Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
Preferred qualifications
  • Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building shared platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure that other engineers rely on
  • Building shared component libraries, design systems or reusable UI infrastructure
  • API design and and client-server architecture patterns that balance flexibility with consistency across client platforms
  • Performance optimization and latency reduction in production web applications
  • CI/CD, build systems, and/or deployment automation
  • Observability and monitoring (e.g. metrics, logging, tracing)


The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$320,000-$405,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
Learn more about Anthropic
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50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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