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Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $485kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Staff-level engineer leading the technical direction for Anthropic's cluster infrastructure, owning agent-driven cluster lifecycle management across cloud providers and datacenters, and driving scalable, secure, and reliable compute for AI model training and experiments.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management - provisioning, updates and decommissioning
  • Partner across teams to ensure new compute capacity is ingested on time
  • Align with partner teams on physical build-out and leverage cloud solutions to deliver high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity
  • Collaborate with security owners to ensure clusters are provisioned secure-by-default
  • Define and drive strategy on cluster scalability, homogeneity and fault tolerance
  • Work closely with cloud providers and internal research, inference and product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
  • Establish and evolve operational-excellence practices: incident response, postmortem culture and on-call health
  • Support the growth of engineers around you through technical mentorship and coaching

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (e.g., Rust, Go, or Python), IaC proficiency with Terraform.
  • Track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems
  • Ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsSystems programmingInfrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Aug 19, 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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