Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise

About the role

The Enterprise pillar at Anthropic is responsible for making Claude enterprise-ready at scale. This role involves designing Claude Enterprise to be widely distributed, supporting the organization's governance and connectivity story, creating abstractions that other teams want to adopt, evaluating tradeoffs, and interfacing with executives from Fortune 500 companies.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year technical strategy, including our distributability and multi-cloud strategy
• Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Serve as one of the primary technical decision-makers for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope
• Partner other teams such as Inference and Platform for foundational systems; Customer Success for the voice of customers, with Infrastructure and Safeguards for security, privacy, and responsible deployment
• Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers across the org
• Drive alignment across Product, GTM, Customer Success, and beyond while proactively identifying and addressing systemic technical risks

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10+ years of engineering experience with a clear track record operating at Staff or Senior Staff level
• Have demonstrably shaped technical strategy for large-scale Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise SaaS companies
• Drive the highest-leverage technical outcomes without formal authority—you lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust
• Have deep expertise in distributed systems and API architecture, and are effective writing design docs, making architectural calls, and coding in critical paths
• Are highly effective across org boundaries—you build trust with GTM, Platform, Inference, Infrastructure, Privacy, Safeguards, and business stakeholders alike
• Bring strong domain expertise and intuition in enterprise areas such as security, identity, compliance, governance, permissions, and connectivity