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Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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London, UK£325k - £485kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Anthropic is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer in Node Infra within the Infrastructure organization. The role focuses on owning the full lifecycle of accelerator capacity, provisioning compute across clouds and datacenters, and building automation to maintain a large AI compute fleet powering frontier research.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management - ingestion, bring-up, health checking, and automated repair
  • Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and accelerator families
  • Design and operate the systems that detect, isolate, and remediate unhealthy hardware automatically, driving up fleet MTBI and minimizing stranded capacity
  • Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved - whether by you directly or by working through others
  • Work closely with cloud providers and internal research/inference/product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
  • Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call)
  • 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.
  • Hands-on experience with machine learning accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium)
  • Track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or systems
  • Ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsSystems programmingIaC (Terraform)Machine learning acceleratorsTechnical leadership

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
  • Optional equity donation matching
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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