Anthropic tech stack

Anthropic builds mostly with Python, SQL, Rust, TypeScript. Its stack also includes AWS, GCP, Google BigQuery, React.js. Python is named in 223 of the 786 job postings Anthropic published in the last 12 months (28%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Anthropic, updated Sep 28, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 28, 2026
Technologies in use
214
Postings analysed
786
Open now
598
Modernity
66 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Anthropic use?

Python is named in 28% of job postings at Anthropic, followed by SQL (14%), Rust (7%), TypeScript (5%).

Python 223 28% required in 87% · 172 open now · since Apr 2024
SQL 110 14% required in 75% · 76 open now · since Oct 2025
Rust 56 7% required in 75% · 48 open now · since Jan 2025
TypeScript 39 5% required in 100% · 33 open now · since Jan 2025
JavaScript 35 4% required in 34% · 29 open now · since Nov 2025
Go 21 3% required in 90% · 20 open now · since Jan 2025
Java 14 2% required in 100% · 14 open now · since Oct 2025
C++ 14 2% required in 93% · 12 open now · since Apr 2025
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Node JS11
Apex6
YARA3
Lua2
Julia1
PowerShell1
Swift1
C1

What frameworks and libraries does Anthropic use?

React.js is named in 3% of job postings at Anthropic, followed by PyTorch (1%), JAX (1%), Commander.js (1%).

React.js 20 3% required in 100% · 16 open now · since Dec 2025
PyTorch 11 1% required in 100% · 10 open now · since Apr 2025
JAX 8 1% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Apr 2025
Commander.js 7 1% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
Transformers 5 1% required in 60% · 3 open now · since Jul 2025
CUDA 4 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2025
Next.js 4 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Dec 2025
NCCL 4 1% optional · 4 open now · since Sep 2025
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Lightning Web Components3
OpenAI Agents SDK3
Instructor2
TensorFlow2
Triton2
XLA2
Asyncio1
Flink1
Metasploit1
Prophet1
Push Notifications1
PyTorch C++1
ROCm1
Streamlit1
TensorFlow C++1
UVM1
OpenTelemetry1

What databases does Anthropic use?

Google BigQuery is named in 3% of job postings at Anthropic, followed by BigQuery (2%), Snowflake (1%), PostgreSQL (1%).

Google BigQuery 21 3% required in 67% · 15 open now · since Nov 2025
BigQuery 17 2% required in 71% · 15 open now · since Nov 2025
Snowflake 9 1% required in 56% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
PostgreSQL 4 1% required in 25% · 4 open now · since Feb 2026
Google Cloud Spanner 3 <1% required in 33% · 3 open now · since Feb 2026
Amazon Redshift 2 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
DuckDB 2 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Apr 2026
Redis 2 <1% required in 50% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
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Firestore2
ClickHouse1
CockroachDB1
DynamoDB1
Google Bigtable1
Memcached1
MySQL1
Oracle1
InfluxDB1
TiDB1
TimescaleDB1

What cloud and platforms does Anthropic use?

AWS is named in 12% of job postings at Anthropic, followed by GCP (12%), Azure (7%), Kubernetes (7%).

AWS 97 12% required in 70% · 70 open now · since Mar 2025
GCP 93 12% required in 71% · 69 open now · since May 2025
Azure 55 7% required in 73% · 40 open now · since Nov 2025
Kubernetes 52 7% required in 77% · 45 open now · since Apr 2025
Linux 18 2% required in 61% · 17 open now · since Oct 2025
GitHub 11 1% required in 82% · 7 open now · since Oct 2025
Tableau 10 1% required in 70% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
SIEM 9 1% required in 89% · 8 open now · since Mar 2025
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Looker9
AWS Bedrock6
Vertex AI6
CUDA Toolkit5
MuleSoft5
Spark5
Grafana5
Datadog5
Power BI5
Figma4
PagerDuty4
Databricks4
GitHub Actions3
Windows3
Apache Kafka3
NixOS3
Okta3
Buildkite2
Amazon EKS2
Amazon Kinesis2
Google GKE2
Istio2
Linkerd2
Amazon S31
Burp Suite1
Censys1
Heroku1
MISP1
Metabase1
Microsoft Entra ID1
U-Boot1
Vercel1

And 5 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Anthropic use?

TPU is named in 4% of job postings at Anthropic, followed by AWS Trainium (2%), dbt (2%), Terraform (1%).

TPU 28 4% required in 54% · 25 open now · since May 2025
AWS Trainium 16 2% required in 56% · 15 open now · since Oct 2025
dbt 15 2% required in 80% · 9 open now · since Oct 2025
Terraform 11 1% required in 91% · 11 open now · since Mar 2025
Rest API 9 1% required in 89% · 5 open now · since Nov 2025
InfiniBand 6 1% required in 50% · 6 open now · since Feb 2026
Microsoft Excel 5 1% required in 80% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Docker 4 1% required in 75% · 3 open now · since Apr 2025
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Prometheus4
SLURM4
AutoCAD3
Bazel3
Copilot3
Cursor3
YARA3
Jenkins2
Pulumi2
WebSockets2
etcd2
Fivetran2
Suricata2
Argo Workflows2
Atlantis2
Cilium2
Consul2
Envoy2
Karpenter2
ZooKeeper2
AgentOps1
Aider1
Ansible1
CAPA1
Canva1
CloudFormation1
KVM1
MQTT1
OPC UA1
Snort1
Copado1
Formal Verification1

And 3 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Anthropic use?

LLM is named in 21% of job postings at Anthropic.

LLM 162 21% required in 73% · 126 open now · since Apr 2024

Which engineering practices does Anthropic ask for?

Multimodal AI is named in 100% of job postings at Anthropic, followed by Interpretability (92%), Machine Learning (14%), AI Agents (12%).

Multimodal AI 785 100% required in 48% · 598 open now · since Apr 2024
Interpretability 723 92% required in 47% · 598 open now · since Apr 2024
Machine Learning 112 14% required in 70% · 81 open now · since Apr 2024
AI Agents 95 12% required in 85% · 77 open now · since Apr 2024
Rollup 40 5% required in 75% · 36 open now · since Dec 2024
Edge AI 36 5% required in 78% · 29 open now · since Jan 2026
CI/CD 34 4% required in 88% · 26 open now · since Mar 2025
Reinforcement Learning 27 3% required in 93% · 21 open now · since Apr 2024
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Fine-tuning22
Red Teaming17
Prompt Engineering16
ETL/ELT15
Agentic Workflows15
Context Engineering15
Function Calling14
Platform Engineering14
Tool Use14
HPC13
Human-in-the-Loop13
SLI/SLO/SLA12
A/B Testing12
EU AI Act10
eBPF10
Time Series Forecasting9
Incident Management9
LLM Guardrails9
DNS9
Post-training8
RLHF8
Pre-training7
IAM7
LLM Evaluation7
DHCP6
Service Mesh6
Anomaly Detection5
Computer Use5
Multi-Agent Systems5
Knowledge Distillation4
Model Distillation4
Synthetic Data4

And 25 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Anthropic team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Sales

128 postings
AWS15
GCP11
Azure7
LLM7
Looker3
Tableau2

Backend

100 postings
Python52
Rust26
AWS24
GCP24
Kubernetes22
TypeScript22

AI/ML

98 postings
LLM58
Python52
PyTorch11
AWS8
GCP8
JAX8

Product

60 postings
LLM9
AWS7
Azure6
GCP6
Kubernetes3
AWS Trainium2

Finance

47 postings
SQL6
Microsoft Excel3

Operations

46 postings
Commander.js2
Lua2

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How much does Anthropic pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Anthropic postings with stated pay: $380k across 661 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python191$405k+7%
LLM129$350k−8%
SQL105$325k−14%
AWS89$425k+12%
GCP85$450k+18%
Rust52$485k+28%
Azure50$405k+7%
Kubernetes47$485k+28%
TypeScript37$405k+7%
JavaScript35$405k+7%

How is the Anthropic stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
InstructorSep 2026
OktaAug 2026
LuaAug 2026
SREAug 2026
DHCPJul 2026
Context EngineeringJul 2026
OpenAI Agents SDKJul 2026
Power BIJul 2026
Rising
Context Engineering0% → 3%
Falling
Python35% → 22%
AWS19% → 9%
GCP17% → 9%
Kubernetes11% → 4%
Edge AI10% → 3%
Rust11% → 5%
CI/CD8% → 3%
Fine-tuning6% → 1%
Not named for 6 months
Chaos EngineeringFeb 2026
BuildkiteFeb 2026
JenkinsFeb 2026

How modern is the Anthropic stack?

Modern AI adopter 66/100

Anthropic scores 66 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 1; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Anthropic stack in its industry?

Share of the 456 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python71%
LLM57%
SQL40%
AWS54%
GCP44%
Rust20%
Azure39%
Kubernetes48%
TypeScript50%
JavaScript54%

What sets Anthropic apart

Commander.js2%
AWS Bedrock4%
Apex3%
Vertex AI3%
MuleSoft2%
PagerDuty3%
Google Cloud Spanner1%
Lightning Web Components1%
NixOS0%
OpenAI Agents SDK3%

Anthropic products in its job postings

Postings at Anthropic name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.

Claude412
Claude Code87
Model Context Protocol37
Anthropic784

Questions about the Anthropic tech stack

What programming languages does Anthropic use?

The languages named in Anthropic job postings are Python (28%), SQL (14%), Rust (7%), TypeScript (5%), JavaScript (4%), as a share of the 786 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Anthropic use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 20 of 786 job postings (3%) and required in 20 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Anthropic use?

The cloud and platforms named in Anthropic job postings are AWS (97), GCP (93), Azure (55) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Sales job at Anthropic?

Sales postings at Anthropic most often require AWS (15), GCP (11), Azure (7), LLM (7), out of 128 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Anthropic tech stack changing?

Yes. Instructor, Okta, Lua, SRE first appeared in Anthropic job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Anthropic tech stack?

Anthropic scores 66 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 1; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Anthropic tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Anthropic publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 786 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 28, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Anthropic tech stack: 214 technologies from 786 job postings", as of Sep 28, 2026. https://alion.io/company/anthropic/technologies

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