Senior Capacity & Compute Engineer

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring for Capacity Engineering to build production systems that ingest telemetry, normalize billing, and optimize fleet utilization across clouds. You will write production-grade Python, work with Kubernetes-native infra at scale, and influence cost-heavy spending decisions.

The role collaborates with research, infrastructure, inference, and finance teams in a high-autonomy environment. Location is San Francisco with on-site expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Strong production Python and SQL skills with data systems.
• Deep cloud provider experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) and cost awareness.

Responsibilities

• Build planning and allocation tooling to manage capacity and scheduling.
• Instrument and monitor fleet utilization, latency, and costs across providers.
• Own attribution and forecasting by reconciling billing with telemetry.
• Develop the data platform pipelines ingesting telemetry to BigQuery with robust SLOs.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

BigQuery

Job description

Anthropic is hiring for Capacity Engineering to build production systems that ingest telemetry, normalize billing, and optimize fleet utilization across clouds. You will write production-grade Python, work with Kubernetes-native infra at scale, and influence cost-heavy spending decisions.

The role collaborates with research, infrastructure, inference, and finance teams in a high-autonomy environment. Location is San Francisco with on-site expectations.