Staff Compute Infrastructure Engineer - Hyperscale Clusters

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Engineer in the Infrastructure group to define the technical direction for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management. You will partner with teams to onboard compute capacity, design secure and high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity, and guide long-term compute infrastructure strategy across cloud providers and in-house datacenters.

You will mentor engineers, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with research, inference, and product teams to scale Claude

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (e.g., 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

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Rust

Terraform

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Engineer in the Infrastructure group to define the technical direction for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management. You will partner with teams to onboard compute capacity, design secure and high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity, and guide long-term compute infrastructure strategy across cloud providers and in-house datacenters.

You will mentor engineers, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with research, inference, and product teams to scale Claude