Staff+ Software Engineer, Deployment

Anthropic; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Platform Engineer to own deployment pipelines and runtime configuration across a large fleet of services. You will shape end-to-end delivery from change to production, with a focus on safety, reliability, and fast rollouts.

You\'ll design APIs, implement rollback controls, and collaborate with security teams to ensure auditable builds and least-privilege access, while supporting multiple workloads from Kubernetes to serverless.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one backend or systems programming language such as Rust, Go, C++, or Java.
• Experience leading design, building, and operation of distributed systems in production.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads (Kubernetes on AWS or GCP).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for major parts of the deployment platform end to end: design, implementation, operations.
• Build rollout safety into the platform, including progressive delivery, health-gated promotion, pause and rollback.
• Design APIs and abstractions for engineers and AI agents.
• Extend the platform to new workloads and runtimes, from Kubernetes to serverless and edge.
• Build and operate runtime configuration and feature flag systems with validation and fast rollback.
• Create infrastructure-as-code workflows used by multiple teams.
• Scale artifact distribution to reach machines quickly and efficiently.
• Collaborate with Security to ensure secure by default production paths with auditable changes.
• Work with teams across Anthropic to understand deployment needs and onboard workloads.
• Participate in on-call and incident response, turning learnings into guardrails.

Skills

Backend languages

Distributed systems

Cloud & Kubernetes

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Every change to Anthropic's software has to reach production somehow: new code, runtime configuration, feature flags, infrastructure changes. Our team builds the systems those changes travel through. Our mission is to give every team at Anthropic a fast, safe, and predictable path from change to production. We sit within Anthropic's Infrastructure organization and own pipelines, staged rollouts, health-gated promotion, and rollback, along with runtime configuration, feature flags, and the systems that deliver code and artifacts to machines across a very large fleet. You'll own a meaningful part of this end to end, from design through operating it in production. If you want your work to shape how fast and how safely Anthropic ships, this could be a great fit.

Key responsibilities

• Set technical direction for major parts of the deployment platform and own them end to end: design, implementation, and operations
• Build rollout safety into the platform, including progressive delivery, health-gated promotion, automatic pause and rollback, and deploy controls that teams manage themselves
• Design APIs and abstractions that work equally well for engineers and for AI agents
• Extend the platform to new workload types and runtimes, from Kubernetes to serverless and edge platforms
• Build and operate runtime configuration and feature flag systems with validation, gradual rollout, and fast rollback
• Build infrastructure-as-code workflows that many teams rely on for safe, routine changes
• Scale artifact distribution so code and configuration reach machines quickly and efficiently
• Partner with Security so that the path to production is secure by default, with verifiable builds, least-privilege access, and auditable changes
• Work directly with teams across Anthropic to understand their deployment needs and bring their workloads onto the platform
• Take part in on-call and incident response, and turn what you learn into guardrails that prevent the same problem from recurring

Minimum qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one backend or systems programming language, such as Rust, Go, C++, or Java
• Experience leading the design, building, and operation of distributed systems or infrastructure in production, including technical direction across teams
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads, such as Kubernetes on AWS or GCP
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building deployment, release, or change management systems at large scale
• Experience with production on-call and incident response
• Experience with Rust in production
• Experience with progressive delivery