Senior Cloud Inference & Launch Engineer

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision

Relocation assistance

Education stipend

Home office stipend

Daily meals in office

Commuter benefits

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Anthropic’s Cloud Inference team in Seattle builds and operates the Claude inference stack across CSPs. You will own validation, deployment, and performance optimizations for inference servers and load balancers, ensuring correctness at scale.

Join a high-leverage infrastructure group responsible for fast, cost-effective validation and cross-platform consistency, enabling frontier models to ship reliably on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong collaboration in cross-functional, fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Own validation pipeline for inference server and load balancer.
• Implement platform-specific integration for cloud deployments.
• Improve observability, performance, and reliability at scale.
• Reduce merge-to-production cycle time through parallel validation.

Skills

Python

Rust

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Anthropic’s Cloud Inference team in Seattle builds and operates the Claude inference stack across CSPs. You will own validation, deployment, and performance optimizations for inference servers and load balancers, ensuring correctness at scale.

Join a high-leverage infrastructure group responsible for fast, cost-effective validation and cross-platform consistency, enabling frontier models to ship reliably on AWS, GCP, and Azure.