Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Productivity

Anthropic Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited in Seattle is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to lead Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. You will define the future of agentic productivity at scale, own the tech strategy, and ship tooling and runtime platforms to empower thousands of researchers and engineers.

The role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, 3+ years leading large teams, and deep experience with agents, container/VM orchestration, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
• Experience with agents doing technical/knowledge work.
• Strong focus on developer productivity and transforming how we work.
• Experience building scalable platforms.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to support 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

Engineering leadership

Agents

Productivity

Scalable platforms

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Container orchestration

VM orchestration

CI/CD

Job description

Anthropic Limited in Seattle is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to lead Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. You will define the future of agentic productivity at scale, own the tech strategy, and ship tooling and runtime platforms to empower thousands of researchers and engineers.

The role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, 3+ years leading large teams, and deep experience with agents, container/VM orchestration, and CI/CD.