Staff+ Software Engineer, Agent Runtime & Productivity

Anthropic

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 405,000 - 485,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Anthropic is seeking experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join the Developer Acceleration team within the Developer Productivity organization. You will help build the infrastructure that enables thousands of researchers and engineers to be productive by shipping agent‑driven tooling and runtime platforms.

Hybrid policy applies: all staff are expected in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, and visa sponsorship is available.

Qualifications

10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
3+ years of experience leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
Extensive experience with agents performing technical/knowledge work.
Obsessed with productivity and transforming work processes.
Experience building scalable platforms.
Excellent communication skills and ability to support internal partners.

Responsibilities

Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and frontier.
Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the area, translating goals into concrete execution.
Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work and enforce standards across the company.
Stay hands‑on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling.
Build agent harnesses and experiment with context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness.
Write evaluation suites to benchmark agent behaviors.
Deliver impact by collaborating cross‑team.
Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices.