Staff Infra Architect - Scalable Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for its Infrastructure team to independently scope and lead large-scale infrastructure projects, shaping system design and reliability. You will collaborate with research and product teams to translate needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.

You will drive architectural direction across multiple teams, mentor engineers, and own deployment and incident processes, with a focus on building

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production.
• A 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 and proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, or Java).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP.

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 design

Architectural decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Programming languages

Cloud infra (Kubernetes)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for its Infrastructure team to independently scope and lead large-scale infrastructure projects, shaping system design and reliability. You will collaborate with research and product teams to translate needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.

You will drive architectural direction across multiple teams, mentor engineers, and own deployment and incident processes, with a focus on building