Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer — Distributed Systems

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Infrastructure (Distributed Systems). You will independently scope and drive multi-month infrastructure projects, shape the architectural direction, and collaborate with research and product teams to meet evolving compute needs.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and security of large-scale systems, mentorship of engineers, and building operational processes like incident response and postmortems.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, multi-month infrastructure projects.
• Strong architectural decision-making across teams and systems.
• Hands-on with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS, GCP).
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards across teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead multi-month infra projects from start to production.
• Make foundational architectural decisions for infrastructure used by multiple teams.
• Drive alignment on technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to translate needs into robust designs.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and security as systems grow.
• Build and improve incident response and postmortem processes.
• Mentor other engineers to raise the team's technical bar.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

Architectural design

Mentoring

Communication skills

AWS/GCP

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes tooling

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Infrastructure (Distributed Systems). You will independently scope and drive multi-month infrastructure projects, shape the architectural direction, and collaborate with research and product teams to meet evolving compute needs.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and security of large-scale systems, mentorship of engineers, and building operational processes like incident response and postmortems.