Infrastructure Engineer - Build Systems & DevTools

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 625,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to lead the technical strategy for developer productivity across research and production workloads. You will design and evolve scalable distributed infrastructure, build environments, and tooling to enable fast, reproducible builds across thousands of daily tasks.

You will collaborate with teams across the infrastructure org to ensure reliability, performance, and efficient workflows in a hybrid office setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with large-scale developer infrastructure.
• Experience with CI orchestration tools and merge queue management.
• Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar).
• Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image/package sets at scale.
• Proficiency with CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub automation workflows.

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

Build systems

CI/CD pipelines

Developer tooling

Python

Rust

Go

Container orchestration

Communication skills

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Buildkite

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Nix/NixOS

Bazel

BuildBarn

BuildBuddy

GitHub API

Automation workflows

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to lead the technical strategy for developer productivity across research and production workloads. You will design and evolve scalable distributed infrastructure, build environments, and tooling to enable fast, reproducible builds across thousands of daily tasks.

You will collaborate with teams across the infrastructure org to ensure reliability, performance, and efficient workflows in a hybrid office setting.