Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $227,000 |
| Median | $256,000 |
| 75th percentile | $288,000 |
| Lowest listing | $110,000 |
| Highest listing | $485,000 |
| Listings counted | 560 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 53 | $445,000 |
| Databricks | 34 | $228,000 |
| Shield AI | 18 | $271,000 |
| Snowflake | 16 | $288,000 |
| Harvey | 15 | $286,000 |
| Coinbase | 15 | $237,000 |
| Zscaler | 15 | $191,000 |
| Riot Games | 14 | $231,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 504 | $256,000 | $228,000 to $288,000 |
| Canada | USD | 12 | $252,000 | $234,000 to $275,000 |
We’re hiring a Staff Engineer to own the technical design of our highest-priority initiative: a personalized digital engagement platform.
Claude Design lets anyone collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work: interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, and animations.
Bringing Claude to scientists and engineers is a big part of building toward that future.
Platform Intelligence turns each new Claude model's abilities into API features that developers can build on. Our goal is to make the full intelligence of each model available through the API.
A connected Claude is the difference between a general-purpose chatbot and a real coworker.
Every change to Anthropic's software has to reach production somehow: new code, runtime configuration, feature flags, infrastructure changes. Our team builds the systems those changes travel through.
Platform Safety builds the infrastructure that lets Anthropic bring its most capable models to more people, safely and securely. Our systems decide both who can access our most advanced models, and what capabilities they can access, wherever Claude is available.
Anthropic is looking for Software Engineers to join the Memory & Search team. We own how Claude remembers you and how it finds what it needs, across Claude.ai, Cowork and Claude Code.
Enterprise is central to Anthropic's mission. The organizations that could benefit most from Claude often have the most demanding needs, with rigorous requirements around end-user experience, procurement, security, and permissions.
As of May 2026, Claude authored more than 80% of the code we merge . In September 2026, we merged more than 30,000 changes per day . Writing a change is fast now, and the hard part is knowing what is correct and safe to ship.
Claude Science is a big part of building toward that future.
The Auth & Identity team builds the authentication, authorization, and identity platform that underpins every Anthropic product: the API, Claude Code, Claude.ai, and our Enterprise offerings.
The Platform Portability team owns the abstractions, tooling, and deployment infrastructure that make this possible without every engineering and research team needing to become experts in different clouds.
We are looking for experienced backend and distributed systems engineers to join the Agentic Systems team within our Platform organization. Agentic Systems builds Claude Managed Agents: the hosted platform for building, running, and scaling production agents on Claude.
The Claude Platform is growing rapidly and serves developers and enterprises at scale. Reaching the next tier of enterprise customers requires transforming how and where we deploy it, as well as the set of features we support out of the box.
As agents take on more real-world work, we're taking a leading role in defining how they get access to external systems — safely, with the right permissions, and in ways enterprises can trust. We ship standards and services used by claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API.
We build and run the secure execution environment behind Claude's agentic capabilities. When Claude writes and runs code, browses the web, or uses a computer, that happens on infrastructure our team owns. We work at the intersection of systems engineering and security.
This is a foundational role. As one of our first dedicated privacy engineers, you will help establish the privacy engineering function at Anthropic and shape how privacy is designed into our AI systems from the ground up.
We focus on organizational context and workflows (plugins, skills, connectors, webhook-triggered processes / agents). In other words, we focus on products that form the connective tissue that lets Claude operate across an organization.
The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand.
Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization.
Over the past year, AI has transformed how software engineering happens; for the rest of knowledge work, though, using AI still mostly means answering questions and producing first drafts — a small slice of the actual job.
Enterprise is central to Anthropic's mission. The organizations that could benefit most from Claude often have the most demanding needs, with rigorous requirements around end-user experience, procurement, security, and permissions.
We build across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainium, and the complexity of our development environment grows with every platform we add.
Engineers in this role will be working across the stack to scale our products from 0 to 1 and beyond.
We are looking for experienced software engineers to join our Platform organization.
Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization.
Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Claude Developer Platform team and serve as the senior-most individual contributor across API Engineering.
Data Infrastructure designs, operates, and scales secure, privacy-respecting systems that power data-driven decisions across Anthropic. We're looking for infrastructure engineers who thrive working at the intersection of data systems, security, and scalability.
How do we know whether a model is safe - and how do we know whether the systems we built to catch misuse actually catch it? We measure model behavior across misuse, prompt injection, and user well-being to inform training and deployment decisions.
Anthropic is looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer to work on the vector search infrastructure behind Claude. Retrieval is how Claude learns about the world.
The Account Abuse team is tasked with ensuring Anthropic's computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from coming back.
The Cloud Inference team scales and optimizes Claude to serve the massive audiences of developers and enterprise companies across AWS, GCP, Azure, and future cloud service providers (CSPs).
Our Inference team is responsible for building and scaling the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide. We bring Claude to life by serving our models via the industry’s largest compute-agnostic inference deployments.
As Claude's capabilities grow, so does our responsibility to ensure those capabilities reach the right people.
We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being.
We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being.
We collaborate closely with safety researchers and inference engineers to bring new classifiers and novel classes of ML defenses to production. We own the research → production transfer of new safety technologies that is on the critical path for every Claude model launch.
The Safeguards ML Sampling Path team builds and operates the production services that power Claude's safety systems.
We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and support user well-being.
The Capacity Engineering team is responsible for making sure all our infrastructure resources are accounted for, well-utilized, and efficiently allocated.
Anthropic · 4mo ago
The Safeguards team is responsible for ensuring our models and products are developed and deployed safely.
The Fraud Prevention team protects Anthropic's payment and monetization surfaces from financial abuse — keeping fraud losses, dispute rates, and network monitoring exposure in check while preserving a smooth experience for legitimate customers.
Our Inference team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide. We bring Claude to life by serving our models via the industry's largest compute-agnostic inference deployments.
Anthropic · 10mo ago
Claude App Infrastructure owns the reliability, experience, and agentic capabilities of claude.ai. This is where the next generation of the product gets built: the primitives that let Claude act in the world, not just respond.
Lambda · 19d ago
We are seeking a seasoned Staff Storage Software Engineer with deep experience designing and deploying storage protocol solutions at scale across object, block, and file paradigms.
Lambda · 1mo ago
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to help our development of our Managed Kubernetes platform. Think GKE, but purpose-built for AI workloads and running on bare metal.
As a Staff Software Engineer for the Compute pillar, you will play a critical role in defining the technical vision for Lambda's next-generation GPU and CPU host instance lifecycle and compute control plane.
Define architecture, standards, and deliver solutions end to end. You will lead builds across Node.js services, AI and agent workflows, and integrations with enterprise systems, owning quality and reliability.
Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products.
The median Staff Software Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $256,000 a year, based on 560 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $227,000 to $288,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Staff Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Staff Software Engineer listings range from $110,000 to $485,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $227,000 and the 75th percentile is $288,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Staff Software Engineer listings are Anthropic (53 listings, median $445,000), Databricks (34 listings, median $228,000), Shield AI (18 listings, median $271,000), Snowflake (16 listings, median $288,000) and Harvey (15 listings, median $286,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
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