Software Engineer, Sandboxing

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. Anthropic's sandboxing infrastructure enables Claude to safely execute code and interact with external systems. As we expand Claude's capabilities, the reliability, security, and developer experience of this infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. We're looking for an engineer to join the sandboxing team and help shape both the client-side library/API and the underlying infrastructure. In this role, you'll combine deep infrastructure expertise with an obsession for developer experience. You'll help maintain and evolve a system that must be correct, performant, and intuitive to use. You'll work closely with internal teams to understand their needs, burn down errors and edge cases, and build a roadmap that anticipates where the product needs to go. This is a role for someone who finds satisfaction in both the craft of building reliable systems and the empathy required to serve developers and researchers well.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent maintaining libraries, SDKs, or developer-facing APIs
Obsess over developer experience—you've thought deeply about API design, error propagation, documentation, and the small details that make a library feel well-crafted
Have experience operating complex distributed systems
Bring a track record of systematically improving reliability—you've burned down error budgets, built monitoring, and driven issues to resolution
Can develop and articulate a long-term vision for a product, translating user feedback and technical constraints into a coherent roadmap
Are comfortable with ambiguity and can context-switch between reactive incident work and proactive product development
Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience as a founder or early engineer at an infrastructure-focused startup, where you owned a product end-to-end
Background in security, sandboxing, or isolation technologies (containers, VMs, seccomp, namespaces, etc.)
Open-source contributions in the Python ecosystem
Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or platforms used by other engineers
History of working on incident response and on-call rotations for production systems
Exposure to reinforcement learning or model training infrastructure

Responsibilities

Contribute to the client library, API surface, and underlying infrastructure for Anthropic's sandboxing system, ensuring it is reliable, well-documented, and intuitive to use
Drive down error rates and improve correctness through systematic debugging, monitoring, and proactive fixes
Help develop and maintain a product roadmap for sandboxing capabilities, balancing immediate needs with long-term architectural improvements
Partner closely with internal teams using the sandboxing system to understand their requirements, debug issues, and build tooling that serves their use cases
Respond to incidents and production issues with urgency, conducting thorough root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures
Build comprehensive testing, observability, and documentation to ensure the system meets a high quality bar
Collaborate across the sandboxing team, flexing between client-side and infrastructure work as needed