Staff Cluster Infrastructure Engineer - Scale Secure Compute

Anthropic Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 325,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Staff Engineer for Cluster Infrastructure to set the technical direction for compute provisioning, lifecycle management, and inter-cluster connectivity. You will partner with security, research, and product teams to scale high-bandwidth infrastructure with secure-by-default design.

The role emphasizes leadership across multiple teams, reliability at scale, and a focus on fault tolerance and automation.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or Python), IaC proficiency with Terraform.
• Track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems.
• Ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management - provisioning, updates and decommissioning
• Partner across teams to ensure new compute capacity is ingested on time
• Align with partner teams on physical build-out and leverage cloud solutions to deliver high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity
• Collaborate with security owners to ensure clusters are provisioned secure-by-default
• Define and drive strategy on cluster scalability, homogeneity and fault tolerance
• Work closely with cloud providers and internal research, inference and product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
• Establish and evolve operational-excellence practices: incident response, postmortem culture and on-call health
• Support the growth of engineers around you through technical mentorship and coaching

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Rust/Go/Python

IaC (Terraform)

Leadership & alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Staff Engineer for Cluster Infrastructure to set the technical direction for compute provisioning, lifecycle management, and inter-cluster connectivity. You will partner with security, research, and product teams to scale high-bandwidth infrastructure with secure-by-default design.

The role emphasizes leadership across multiple teams, reliability at scale, and a focus on fault tolerance and automation.