Staff+ Software Engineer: Agent Runtime & Productivity

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Staff+ Software Engineer in the Developer Acceleration group, within Developer Productivity. The role focuses on building and evolving the runtime platform and agent infrastructure used across research and engineering to boost productivity.

The successful candidate will lead strategy, define quality standards for agent‑driven work, and stay hands‑on while shaping the future of agentic systems. Hybrid work policy applies.

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.
• Experience with agents, e.g. agents doing technical/knowledge work.
• Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work.
• Experience building scalable platforms.
• Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Agent technologies

Productivity mindset

Communication skills

Scalable platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CI/CD

Container orchestration

CLI tools

VM orchestration

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a Staff+ Software Engineer in the Developer Acceleration group, within Developer Productivity. The role focuses on building and evolving the runtime platform and agent infrastructure used across research and engineering to boost productivity.

The successful candidate will lead strategy, define quality standards for agent‑driven work, and stay hands‑on while shaping the future of agentic systems. Hybrid work policy applies.