Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

SignalAI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 625,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect in the US to lead the technical strategy and roadmap for developer productivity within the Infrastructure organization. You will define architecture, design scalable systems, and collaborate across research and production teams to enable reliable, high-volume workloads.

Strong candidates will excel with Python, Rust, and/or Go, CI/CD pipelines, and large monorepo environments, while improving developer workflows and tooling.

Qualifications

• 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, but visa offers are determined case by case and we assist with immigration.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area.
• Define infrastructure architecture and solve the hardest problems.
• Design and build scalable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries for high-volume workloads across engineering teams.
• Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependencies to enable fast, reproducible builds.
• Define language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads.

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

CI/CD pipelines

Build systems

Container orchestration

Developer tooling

Communication

Monorepo experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Buildkite

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Bazel Remote Execution API

BuildBarn

BuildBuddy

Nix/NixOS/Docker

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

Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand.

Developer Productivity owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers and researchers at Anthropic develop, build, test, and ship code at scale — from the source control and language ecosystems that underpin our monorepo, to the build and CI infrastructure that keeps thousands of daily builds running reliably across multiple cloud providers, to the developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates Claude into engineering workflows.

Team Matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team‑level goals into concrete execution plans
• Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
• Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high‑volume workloads across all engineering teams
• Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
• Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment
• Have strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go
• Are obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
• Have experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners to improve their development experience
• Are excited about designing foundational systems and are comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high‑impact technical challenges

Strong Candidates May Have

• 15+ years (not including internships or co‑ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large‑scale developer infrastructure
• 3+ years (not including internships or co‑ops) of experience leading large scale complex projects or teams as a tech lead
• Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale
• Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar)
• Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image / package sets at scale
• Experience building CLI tools, developer‑facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows

Compensation

Annual Salary: $405,000 - $625,000 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.

Equity and Benefits

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.

Apply

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.

Interview & Selection Process

We do not conduct LeetCode‑style interviews here. Our coding interviews are designed to reflect the kind of work you'd actually do on the job, so please pick the language you know best and feel most confident in.

We invite you to review our AI partnership guidelines for candidates and confirm your understanding by selecting “Yes.”

Other Resources

LinkedIn, GitHub, Personal Websites, etc.

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We believe this will have a transformative impact on the world, and we’re seeking exceptional candidates who collaborate thoughtfully with Claude. At the same time, we want to understand your unique skills, expertise, and perspective through our hiring process.

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Note: we do NOT do LeetCode‑style interviews here. Our coding interviews are designed to reflect the kind of work you'd actually do on the job, so please pick the language you know best and feel most confident in.