Staff Software Engineer, Inference

Overview

Staff Software Engineer on Anthropic’s Inference team, building and maintaining infrastructure that serves Claude to millions of users.

What you'll do

• Identify and address infrastructure blockers end to end to serve Claude at scale.
• Build and maintain critical inference systems across the full stack.
• Optimize compute efficiency while enabling research needs for high-performance inference infrastructure.
• Work on intelligent request routing and fleet-wide orchestration across accelerators.
• Troubleshoot performance using real-world observability data.
• Support multi-region deployments and geographic routing for global traffic.

What you'll need

• Significant software engineering experience, particularly in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with performance optimization.
• Familiarity with distributed systems.
• Familiarity with large-scale service orchestration.
• Familiarity with intelligent request routing.

Details

• Annual compensation range: €295,000–€355,000 EUR.
• Location-based hybrid policy: staff expected in an office at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: sponsored for some roles/candidates.