Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

Anthropic; 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

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 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.

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. The Developer Acceleration team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. By joining this team, you'll have a direct impact on the velocity and quality of Anthropic's research and engineering development. You will be defining how AI transforms our work and building the future of agentic productivity.

Some Things That The Team Owns

• Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents
• Knowledge for providing relevant internal context to agents and humans

Some of our work is mentioned in When AI Builds itself and Building effective human-agent teams.

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

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Have a lot of experience with agents, eg. agents doing technical/knowledge work
• Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
• Have experience building scalable platforms
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
• Experience working with researchers and engineers
• Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD, builds, etc.
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services

Annual Salary

$405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.