Staff Infra Engineer - Lead Distributed Systems

AI Startups UK

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 325,000 - 390,000

Full time

14 days+

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Competitive compensation

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Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team. You will scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, design robust scalable systems, and partner with research and product teams to meet evolving needs.

You’ll own reliability, security, and performance, setting standards and mentoring others as the company scales. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, cross-team alignment, and hands-on contribution to Kubernetes-based data pipelines, compute platforms,

Qualifications

Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production.
Proven ability to scope and deliver complex, ambiguous, multi-month projects.
Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers rely on.
Strong software engineering fundamentals; proficient in at least one language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, Java).
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, IaC) on AWS and/or GCP.
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to align across teams.

Responsibilities

Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects from conception to production.
Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation for other engineers and teams.
Drive alignment on technical direction across teams amid ambiguity.
Partner with research and product teams to translate needs into technical designs.
Own reliability, scalability, and security as systems grow.
Set technical strategy and standards for the team.
Improve operational processes like incident response and postmortems; mentor engineers.