Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation & Config Infra

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior Infrastructure leader to own the configuration and experimentation systems powering our research and product teams. You will drive end-to-end strategy for feature flagging, dynamic configuration, and A/B testing platforms at scale.

You will design scalable infrastructure, mentor engineers, and partner with deployment and testing teams to ensure reliable rollouts and measurable impact across research and production workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience with configuration management and experimentation platforms in large-scale environments.
• Proficient in Python, Rust, or Go.
• Strong communication and developer-support skills.
• Experience with container orchestration at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for config and experimentation infrastructure, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans and partnering with teams focused on deployment, testing, and more
• Maintain and enhance the architecture for feature flagging, dynamic configuration, and experimentation systems, 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 experimentation and config workloads across all engineering teams
• Own and evolve the platforms and tooling that let engineers and researchers safely ship config changes, run experiments, and measure impact
• Define standards, tooling, and frameworks for experimentation and configuration management that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

Skills

Configuration mgmt

Feature flags

Experimentation

Python

Rust

Go

Communication

Independent problem solving

Container orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

CLI tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a senior Infrastructure leader to own the configuration and experimentation systems powering our research and product teams. You will drive end-to-end strategy for feature flagging, dynamic configuration, and A/B testing platforms at scale.

You will design scalable infrastructure, mentor engineers, and partner with deployment and testing teams to ensure reliable rollouts and measurable impact across research and production workloads.