Staff Infrastructure Engineer — Hyperscale Compute & Clusters

anthropic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 325,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic invites a Staff engineer for the Cluster Infra team to lead the technical direction of agent-driven lifecycle management. You will coordinate with cloud providers, research and product groups to scale compute, ensure security-by-default deployments, and drive reliability across large-scale infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-team alignment, and mentoring engineers while delivering scalable, fault-tolerant systems for AI workloads in a hybrid office setting.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or Python).
• IaC proficiency with Terraform.
• Track record of leading complex multi-team initiatives.
• Ability to align with senior stakeholders and communicate effectively.

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

Kubernetes

System languages: Rust/Go/Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Stakeholder communication

Leadership experience

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Anthropic invites a Staff engineer for the Cluster Infra team to lead the technical direction of agent-driven lifecycle management. You will coordinate with cloud providers, research and product groups to scale compute, ensure security-by-default deployments, and drive reliability across large-scale infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-team alignment, and mentoring engineers while delivering scalable, fault-tolerant systems for AI workloads in a hybrid office setting.