Staff Infra Engineer: Lead Distributed AI Infrastructure

Menlo Ventures; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 325,000 - 390,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team to scope and lead multi-month projects, set architectural direction, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security of core systems.

You will collaborate with research and product teams, mentor engineers, and help raise the technical bar. The role offers a location-based hybrid policy with visa sponsorship support.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Ability to scope and deliver complex multi-month technical projects.
• Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers build on.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python/Go/Java).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code on AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with cross-team alignment.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
• Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation other engineers and teams build on
• Drive alignment on technical direction across teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces
• Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and turn them into technical designs
• Own the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow
• Set technical strategy and standards for your team's infrastructure
• Build and improve operational processes such as incident response, postmortems, and on‑call rotations
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team

Skills

Distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Python/Go/Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team to scope and lead multi-month projects, set architectural direction, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security of core systems.

You will collaborate with research and product teams, mentor engineers, and help raise the technical bar. The role offers a location-based hybrid policy with visa sponsorship support.