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Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff+ Software Engineer on Anthropic's Infrastructure team to independently scope and lead complex multi-month infrastructure projects, shape architectural decisions, and collaborate with research and product teams to build scalable, reliable, secure systems for training, serving, and securing AI models.

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

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

Skills

Required:Large-scale distributed systemsArchitectural decision makingProgramming

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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