Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the MCP proxy and OAuth and token management infrastructure for external tool calls.
• Own reliability through SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
• Build enterprise admin controls and permission models for governing agent actions.
• Contribute to the MCP specification, ecosystem, and official Python and TypeScript SDKs.
• Scope and drive complex multi-month projects, make architectural decisions, and align teams across Anthropic.
• Partner with research teams to productize capabilities and dogfood platform features in consuming products.

Requirements

• Experience as a backend or platform engineer.
• Experience operating production distributed systems and understanding reliability, observability, and incident response at scale.
• Ability to independently make sound technical decisions, navigate ambiguity, and take ownership from design through operations.
• Product-focused approach to building robust, scalable, and usable platform solutions.
• Familiarity with using AI tools in the software development process.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build consensus across teams and time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Benefits

• Annual compensation range of $405,000—$485,000 USD.
• Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
• Visa sponsorship with immigration lawyer support where applicable.
• Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.