Senior Capacity Engineering Lead for AI Infrastructure

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI company in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Capacity Engineering to lead a growing team responsible for data platform, planning, and efficiency across cloud compute.

You will set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, own the roadmap, ensure reliability with SLOs, and collaborate with research, infrastructure, and finance to optimize spend.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software or infrastructure teams.
• Strong background in production systems and distributed architectures.
• Proficiency with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Be hands-on, lead and grow the team, hiring senior engineers and mentoring staff.
• Own the roadmap, translating compute strategy into an engineering plan across data platform, planning and efficiency.
• Set the technical bar with production-ready designs, SLOs, and reliable incident-management practices.
• Run the team as a product organization with cross-functional stakeholders and clear requirements.
• Drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalable architecture across the fleet.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Cloud providers

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Job description

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI company in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Capacity Engineering to lead a growing team responsible for data platform, planning, and efficiency across cloud compute.

You will set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, own the roadmap, ensure reliability with SLOs, and collaborate with research, infrastructure, and finance to optimize spend.