Staff Infra Architect: Build & Developer Tools

Anthropic Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 625,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own the technical strategy for building reliable, scalable developer infrastructure across research and production. You will shape architecture, lead high‑impact initiatives, and drive global build and CI/CD tooling to accelerate Claude deployments.

Ideal candidates have 15+ years in software engineering, deep monorepo experience, and proficiency in Python, Rust or Go, plus exposure to container orchestration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Experience with large-scale developer infrastructure.
• Experience with CI orchestration tools and merge queue management at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
• Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
• Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams
• Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
• Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

Skills

Build systems

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Rust

Go

Developer tooling

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Buildkite

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Bazel

Docker

Nix/NixOS

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own the technical strategy for building reliable, scalable developer infrastructure across research and production. You will shape architecture, lead high‑impact initiatives, and drive global build and CI/CD tooling to accelerate Claude deployments.

Ideal candidates have 15+ years in software engineering, deep monorepo experience, and proficiency in Python, Rust or Go, plus exposure to container orchestration.