Staff Cloud Infra Architect — Large-Scale Clusters

Anthropic Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco/Seattle area

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Cluster Infra team in Seattle. You will define the technical direction for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management, drive expansion of compute capacity, and align with security and cloud partners to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers and influence multi-team roadmaps. The role emphasizes operating at hyperscale compute, ensuring high-bandwidth, secure connectivity, and resilient fault-tolerant systems while

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or Python), IaC proficiency with Terraform.
• Track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems.
• Ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management - provisioning, updates and decommissioning.
• Partner across teams to ensure new compute capacity is ingested on time.
• Align with partner teams on physical build-out and leverage cloud solutions to deliver high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity.
• Collaborate with security owners to ensure clusters are provisioned secure-by-default.
• Define and drive strategy on cluster scalability, homogeneity and fault tolerance.
• Work closely with cloud providers and internal research, inference and product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy.
• Establish and evolve operational-excellence practices: incident response, postmortem culture and on-call health.
• Support the growth of engineers around you through technical mentorship and coaching.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Rust/Go/Python

Terraform

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Cluster Infra team in Seattle. You will define the technical direction for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management, drive expansion of compute capacity, and align with security and cloud partners to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers and influence multi-team roadmaps. The role emphasizes operating at hyperscale compute, ensuring high-bandwidth, secure connectivity, and resilient fault-tolerant systems while