Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for a Staff+ Engineer to anchor our Enterprise pillar—the team that makes Claude enterprise-ready at scale. When a Fortune 500 company wants to roll out Claude to 100,000 employees, the systems and products that you design are what make it possible.

What it asks for · 6

• 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.

What the job covers

• 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.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• technical11×
• enterprise8×
• claude6×
• drive6×
• infrastructure6×
• design5×
• security5×
• systems5×
• trust5×
• architectural4×
• customer success4×
• effective4×
• engineer4×
• engineering4×
• expertise4×
• gtm4×

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