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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (London)£325k - £390kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer leading complex, multi-month infrastructure projects within Anthropic's Distributed Systems infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and collaboration with research and product teams.

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 other engineers and teams build on
  • Drive alignment on technical direction across teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces
  • Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and turn them into technical designs
  • Own 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, so the team learns 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 history of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects
  • Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language (for example, 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 teams or stakeholders

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designArchitectural decision makingProgramming languagesCloud infrastructureCommunication and collaboration

Benefits

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