Senior Capacity Engineering Lead — Infra & Data Ops

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Capacity Engineering to lead a hands-on team responsible for data platform, planning and efficiency, and reliability of critical infrastructure. You will set technical direction, grow staff engineers, and collaborate with research engineering, inference, and finance to optimize spend and performance.

The role is on-site five days a week with a location-based hybrid policy and competitive $405k–$485k annual USD compensation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on leadership experience with senior and staff engineers.
• Strong technical background in production systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into an engineering roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Be hands-on, lead and grow the team, hire and retain senior engineers.
• Own the roadmap and translate compute strategy into prioritized plans.
• Set production standards and ensure reliability and on-call readiness.
• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to align capacity decisions.

Skills

People management

Production systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Anthropic in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Capacity Engineering to lead a hands-on team responsible for data platform, planning and efficiency, and reliability of critical infrastructure. You will set technical direction, grow staff engineers, and collaborate with research engineering, inference, and finance to optimize spend and performance.

The role is on-site five days a week with a location-based hybrid policy and competitive $405k–$485k annual USD compensation.