Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Infrastructure

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for the Infrastructure organization in Seattle to independently scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, shaping the technical direction across teams. You will work with research and product partners to design scalable, secure systems, and ensure reliability as complexity grows.

You will drive architectural decisions, own operational processes, and mentor other engineers while aligning with company goals of safe and beneficial AI.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production.
• A track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
• Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on top of.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, or Java).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across multiple teams or stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system.
• Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation of infrastructure other engineers and teams build on.
• Drive alignment on technical direction across multiple teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces.
• Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and translate them into technical designs.
• Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow.
• Set technical strategy and standards for your team's infrastructure.
• Build and improve operational processes, such as incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations, that help the team learn from every incident.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architectural decisions

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Programming fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for the Infrastructure organization in Seattle to independently scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects, shaping the technical direction across teams. You will work with research and product partners to design scalable, secure systems, and ensure reliability as complexity grows.

You will drive architectural decisions, own operational processes, and mentor other engineers while aligning with company goals of safe and beneficial AI.