Software Engineer - Application Backend (remote)

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. Make sure to apply quickly in order to maximise your chances of being considered for an interview Read the complete job description below.Anthropic is looking for backend software engineers to work across our product engineering organization. You'll build the products and systems that bring Claude's capabilities to users and developers - from the APIs that hundreds of thousands of developers build on, to the enterprise features that let Fortune 500 companies deploy Claude at scale, to the agentic tools that are redefining how developers write code. You'll partner closely with frontend engineers, researchers, designers, and product managers to translate product vision into robust, scalable backend systems. This role is part of our engineering pipeline hiring process. During the application process, you'll have the opportunity to indicate which teams interest you most, and we'll work with you to find the best fit. API Core : You'll build and scale the foundation of the Claude API—the systems that deliver Claude's intelligence to every developer, from startups to enterprise. You'll own the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our core serving path, ensuring users get the most speed and value from our models. You'll partner closely with inference and safeguards to optimize the full stack. API Capabilities: You'll bring frontier model capabilities to developers through the Claude API, owning core features like vision, tool use, and computer use. You'll launch new models and ship the primitives that make Claude more capable with every release. The Claude API today is a rapidly growing platform serving developers and enterprises at scale—but reaching the next tier of enterprise customers requires transforming how and where we deploy it. The Distributability team owns that transformation: making the Claude API a cloud-native, managed product that runs wherever our customers need it, cross-cloud and on Anthropic's own infrastructure, with the enterprise-grade security, compliance, and operational capabilities to support it. You'll work on making it possible for developers to securely give Claude access to their data while automatically processing and retrieving relevant information. Developer Experience: You'll focus on building products and tools to enable developers to harness the full power of LLMs to create successful, reliable, and groundbreaking applications with ease. You'll build the tools to accelerate developers from idea to deployment. You'll help figure out how to leverage Claude to improve developer's usage of the API, such as generating and evaluating prompts while collaborating closely with the teams above to bring Claude's current and future capabilities to developers. API Agents: You'll focus on building the infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to create powerful agentic applications within the Claude API. You'll help developers with agent orchestration through capabilities like tool use, multi-step reasoning, and long-running task execution that allow Claude to take actions and accomplish complex goals on behalf of users. Enterprise Foundations: We're looking for a software engineer to join our Enterprise Foundations team—the team that makes Claude enterprise-ready at scale. When a Fortune 500 company wants to roll out Claude to 100,000 employees, we're the team that makes it possible. You'll build the foundational systems that large organizations require before they can deploy AI at scale: user and permissions management, security and compliance features, and analytics infrastructure. This work directly converts product-market fit into revenue by removing the deployment blockers that prevent large organizations from adopting Claude broadly. Have 5+ years of relevant industry experience as a backend or product engineer, ideally leading projects of multi-month, complex scale Are proficient in Python, Go, or similar backend languages and have experience with modern cloud infrastructure Have strong demonstrated product sense - you think about the user experience even when writing server-side code Take full ownership of your work, from design through deployment and operations Communicate effectively across functions and can translate between product requirements and technical implementation Care deeply about code quality, testing, and operational excellence, and about the societal impact of the systems you build Experience building or maintaining billing, payments, or financial infrastructure where data consistency and correctness are critical Exposure to ML/AI systems or an understanding of how LLM inference and model serving pipelines work Experience building internal developer tools, CI/CD systems, or platform capabilities that improved engineering velocity across an organization Experience with multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic infrastructure patterns Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks like React (our platform engineers sometimes work across the stack)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. 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 Location-based hybrid policy: 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. 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 believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. xhyhwjd Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application processRemote working/work at home options are available for this role.