Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Distributed Systems Leader

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team to independently scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, shaping the foundation for scalable systems used across AI training and serving pipelines.

You will partner with research and product groups to translate needs into robust technical designs, owning reliability, scalability, and security as usage grows, and setting standards for the team’s infrastructure.

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 (for example, Python, Rust, 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 or stakeholders.

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

Project scoping

Architectural decisions

Programming languages

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team to independently scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, shaping the foundation for scalable systems used across AI training and serving pipelines.

You will partner with research and product groups to translate needs into robust technical designs, owning reliability, scalability, and security as usage grows, and setting standards for the team’s infrastructure.