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Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$405k - $485kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff+ Software Engineer role within the Developer Acceleration team of Anthropic's Developer Productivity organization. Responsible for defining and executing the infrastructure enabling agentic productivity, including the Agent Runtime Platform, knowledge management for agents, and improving agent performance and correctness through tooling, experiments, and scalability practices.

Responsibilities

  • Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier
  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating goals into concrete execution
  • Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work, and hold that line across the company
  • Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
  • Build agent harnesses and experiment with various context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
  • Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
  • Deliver impact by collaborating cross-team
  • Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices

Qualifications

  • 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • Experience with agents (agents doing technical/knowledge work)
  • Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
  • Experience building scalable platforms
  • Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Skills

Required:Large-scale distributed systemsTechnical leadership / project leadershipAgent technology / agent systems

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration
  • Visa sponsorship available in some cases (with caveats)
Last updated Jul 15, 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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