Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Connectivity team makes Claude the most connected AI by defining how agents access external systems safely and with enterprise trust. The team owns the MCP proxy, OAuth and token management, and contributes to the MCP open standard and official Python and TypeScript SDKs.

• Design, build, and operate core connectivity infrastructure including the MCP proxy and OAuth/token management.
• Own reliability for infrastructure with SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
• Build admin controls and permission models for enterprise IT governance.
• Contribute to the MCP standard and ecosystem, including the spec and official SDKs.
• Scope complex multi-month projects, drive cross-org alignment, and make architectural decisions.

• You have experience as a backend or platform engineer.
• You are familiar with using AI tools in software development.
• You take a product-focused approach to platform work.
• You take full ownership from design through operations.
• You can navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions.
• You have experience operating production distributed systems.
• You have excellent communication skills.

Annual salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD.

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, including generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and optional equity donation matching.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. No deadline. Visa sponsorship is available.