Staff Software Engineer — Scalable Developer Infra

Anthropic; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental, and vis­

Relocation support

Competitive salary and equity packages

Education stipend

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior member of the Infrastructure team to own the technical strategy and roadmap for scalable developer infrastructure. You will translate team goals into concrete execution plans and define architecture that solves hard problems, collaborating with researchers, engineers, and policy experts.

You will design and build reliable distributed systems and shared libraries, evolve build environments and dependency management for fast, reproducible builds, and drive toolchains

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go.
• Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale.
• Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners to improve their development experience.
• 3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
• Deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment.
• Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale.
• Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar).
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
• Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
• Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams
• Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
• Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

Skills

Python

Rust/Go

CI/CD

Docker

Communication

Developer productivity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Nix/NixOS

Docker

Buildkite

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

BuildBarn

BuildBuddy

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a senior member of the Infrastructure team to own the technical strategy and roadmap for scalable developer infrastructure. You will translate team goals into concrete execution plans and define architecture that solves hard problems, collaborating with researchers, engineers, and policy experts.

You will design and build reliable distributed systems and shared libraries, evolve build environments and dependency management for fast, reproducible builds, and drive toolchains