Software Engineer, Networking

Anthropic

full-time

Posted on: 10/10/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $320,000 - $485,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

Distributed SystemsGoLinuxPythonSwitchingTCP/IP

About the role

Build and operate production networks: Design, deploy, and maintain high-performance networks across multiple data center sites, including managing physical infrastructure, routing protocols, and network security
Develop network automation and tooling: Write software to automate network provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows
Ensure reliability and performance: Implement comprehensive monitoring, build debugging tools, investigate outages, and drive continuous reliability improvements
Scale networking infrastructure: Plan and execute network expansions to new sites and facilities, including working with vendors, managing physical builds, and migrating live traffic
Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with compute, storage, and ML infrastructure teams to optimize network performance for AI workloads and troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues
Incident response: Participate in on-call rotation and lead response to network-related incidents

5+ years of experience in network engineering, with hands-on experience building and operating production networks
Strong software development skills (Python, Go, or similar) and experience building network automation, tooling, or infrastructure software
Deep understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, VLANs, VPCs, routing, switching, and network security
Experience with the full stack of networking—from physical layer concerns (cabling, optics, hardware) through software-defined networking
Comfort working with Linux, command-line tools, and infrastructure-as-code approaches
Track record of debugging complex distributed systems issues that span network, compute, and application layers
Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams.

Benefits

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

network engineeringnetwork automationPythonGoTCP/IPBGPISISOSPFVLANsVPCs

strong communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingincident response