Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching

Overview

Build and lead Anthropic’s caching infrastructure as a managed service, including a managed Redis fleet and CDC-driven cache invalidation.

What you'll do

• Drive the technical direction for caching infrastructure used across Product and Research.
• Design, build, and operate a managed Redis fleet to scale for Claude’s ecosystem.
• Build client libraries and developer abstractions to make correct caching the default.
• Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation to keep cached data consistent.
• Architect caching solutions across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, and other environments.
• Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability, and cost efficiency on critical paths.
• Develop observability and tooling to understand and debug cache behavior.

What you'll need

• Significant experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of caching architectures, including invalidation, consistency tradeoffs, and failure modes.
• Experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores in production.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python at scale).
• Track record leading large, complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead.
• Ability to balance moving quickly with production reliability needs.
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Details

• Location-based hybrid policy: staff are expected to be in one of the company offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship is available; the company sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts if an offer is made.