Staff Software Engineer, Inference

Job summary

Responsibilities

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.

• Design, build, and maintain the distributed systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide
• Develop resilient, flexible systems that adapt in real time to real-world events
• Develop intelligent request routing, load balancing, and traffic management systems across thousands of accelerators
• Maximize compute efficiency across the fleet by autoscaling and orchestrating production, research, and experimental workloads
• Build and operate production-grade deployment pipelines for releasing new models to users

What they're looking for

• Proficiency in Python or Rust
• Software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production
• Working knowledge of containerized infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes) and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
• Willingness to pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description

Tech stack

• Python
• Rust
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure