Staff Distributed Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will independently scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, shape architectural decisions, and work with research and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

You will own the reliability, security, and performance of core platforms, mentor engineers, set technical standards, and help mature incident response and postmortems.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
• Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on top of.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code on AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience driving alignment across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system.
• Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation of infrastructure other engineers and teams build on.
• Drive alignment on technical direction across multiple teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces.
• Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and translate them into technical designs.
• Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow.
• Set technical strategy and standards for your team's infrastructure.
• Build and improve operational processes, such as incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations, that help the team learn from every incident.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team

Skills

Distributed systems

Architectural design

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Programming: Python/Go/Java

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Linux

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will independently scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, shape architectural decisions, and work with research and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

You will own the reliability, security, and performance of core platforms, mentor engineers, set technical standards, and help mature incident response and postmortems.