Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases

Job summary

ABOUT Ant*** Ant***’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.

Benefits

Qualifications

• We're looking for experienced engineers to build and scale the database infrastructure that powers Claude's products and Ant***'s research.
• and build infrastructure that accelerates their work
• Optimize database performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for database
• Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating production database or storage systems
• Deep knowledge of distributed database architectures and OLTP systems at scale
• Proficiency with SQL and at least one major relational or distributed database engine (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spanner, CockroachDB, DynamoDB)
• Track record of leading large, complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead
• Ability to balance moving quickly with the reliability needs of production systems
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration
• 10+ years building and scaling database systems, with 3+ years leading large-scale projects or teams
• Experience scaling databases through periods of rapid growth at high-growth companies

Responsibilities

• As a Software Engineer on the Databases team, you'll architect and operate the systems that let millions of users interact with Claude while also supporting frontier AI research workloads.
• Drive the technical direction for database solutions used across Product and Research
• Design and implement database solutions that scale to support millions of users across Claude's product ecosystem
• Build and scale database systems through 100x+ growth while maintaining reliability and performance
• Build the database platform that lets Ant*** engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling.
• Architect data storage solutions that operate across GCP, AWS, first-party deployments, third-party deployments, and other environments
• Develop database infrastructure that serves both product and research workloads with different performance characteristics
• Build data movement infrastructure (migration tooling, backfill, and change data capture pipelines) that safely consolidates and moves data across the organization
• Design and operate caching infrastructure, including CDC-driven cache invalidation, that keeps Ant***'s hottest paths fast and correct
• Partner with product and research teams to understand data

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