Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Anthropic- Compensation
- $405k–$485k Published range · Top quartile for Engineering (597 listings)
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY, 25% in office Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
Company
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders.
Role
The Developer Experience (DevX) team owns the surfaces developers interact with on the Claude Platform: the Console, docs platform, SDKs, and CLI. The role spans two workstreams: DevX Core (driving technical direction for the Console and docs platform) and SDKs (owning SDKs across seven languages plus the CLI, including code generation, testing, and release pipelines).
Responsibilities
- Drive technical direction for the Console and docs platform, working with product and design from problem definition through launch.
- Set platform patterns and standards for internal teams shipping features onto the Console.
- Own SDKs across seven languages plus the CLI, ensuring new platform capabilities land as idiomatic features.
- Drive code generation, testing, and release pipeline for consistent multi-language shipping.
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of practical full-stack engineering experience, ideally with 2+ years at Staff or equivalent technical leadership level.
- Led design and delivery of complex, developer-facing products across the full stack.
- Technical expert in modern frontend and backend development, with depth in React and TypeScript.
- Product-focused approach to building robust, scalable, easy-to-use solutions.
- Experience in early-stage or fast-moving environments, ideally building products from 0 to 1.
- Strong mentorship and cross-team alignment skills.
Compensation
Annual salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD.
Benefits
Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office space.
Application
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis; no deadline to apply.
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