Software Engineer – API Product – Backend
| Company | Anthropic |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $405000 – $485000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience
- 3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design and implement products that we launch in the Anthropic API, serving hundreds of thousands of developers
- Partner with research teams to productize cutting-edge model capabilities
- Participate in API design reviews to ensure consistent, intuitive developer experiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship a world-class product
- Support and debug production issues through on-call rotations
- Design processes (e.g. postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively and never fail the same way twice
Preferred Qualifications
- Passionate about designing tasteful APIs and developer-focused products
- Enjoy talking directly with users and view ‘product’ as part of your job
- Can work independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment