Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching

📋 Description

• Drive caching infra direction across Product and Research
• Design, build, and operate a Redis fleet for Claude
• Build client libraries and abstractions for correct caching
• Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation
• Architect caching across GCP, AWS, and on-prem environments
• Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability, and cost

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience as a software engineer building and operating production distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of caching architectures, including invalidation strategies, consistency tradeoffs, and failure modes
• Experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores in production
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, C++) or Python at scale
• 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

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Collaborative office space