Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering· San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Software Engineer, Sandboxing
Classified Tasks (17)
Automate 0%Augment 76%Human-Only 24%
Augment (13)
AI assists, human decides
Contribute to the development and maintenance of the client library for Anthropic's sandboxing system
technical
Design and evolve the API surface for the sandboxing system
technical
Implement, operate, and maintain the underlying sandboxing infrastructure
technical
Ensure the sandboxing system is correct by fixing bugs and addressing edge cases
technical
Ensure the sandboxing system is performant by profiling and optimizing runtime components
technical
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for the client library, APIs, and infrastructure
communication
Improve developer experience by refining API design, error propagation, and usability details
technical
Reduce error rates and improve correctness by performing systematic debugging, building monitoring, and applying proactive fixes
operational
Debug and resolve issues reported by internal teams and production users
technical
Build tooling to support internal teams' sandboxing workflows and use cases
technical
Implement preventive measures and follow-up changes to avoid incident recurrence
operational
Build and maintain comprehensive testing suites to validate sandboxing functionality
technical
Implement and maintain observability (monitoring, logging, metrics) for the sandboxing system
operational
Human-Only (4)
Requires human judgment
Develop and maintain a product roadmap for sandboxing capabilities that balances immediate needs with long-term architectural improvements
leadership
Collaborate with internal teams to gather requirements and understand their sandboxing use cases
communication
Respond to incidents and production issues with urgency and conduct thorough root cause analysis
operational
Collaborate across the sandboxing team, switching between client-side and infrastructure work as needed
communication
Job description
About Anthropic 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. About the Role 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. 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 You May Be a Good Fit If You Have 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 Strong Candidates May Also Have 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