Staff Software Engineer (Continuous Integration)

• Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Continuous Integration (CI) team within the Developer Productivity organization
• The CI team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables hundreds of engineers to ship code safely and efficiently to production. By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the velocity and reliability of Anthropic’s research and product development
• The CI team manages Anthropic’s continuous integration system, which includes:
• CI infrastructure for automated testing and code quality assurance across our monorepo, designed to scale with rapid growth
• Test infrastructure that runs on Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers, handling intelligent test selection, execution, and reporting for a large and complex test suite
• Merge queue management and complex branching strategies that ensure code quality at scale
• CI tooling and automation to improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead
• Design and build highly reliable, scalable CI infrastructure that supports thousands of daily builds across multiple cloud providers
• Develop intelligent test selection systems that reduce CI time while maintaining code quality
• Build and improve incident response automation, including cluster load shedding, automatic recovery, and observability tooling
• Improve test infrastructure reliability through flake detection, quarantine systems, and test state management

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office

• Have 10+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale CI/CD systems
• Are obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
• Have deep experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Care deeply about reliability and building systems that “never fail the same way twice”
• Have experience with container orchestration at scale
• Experience with merge queues and branch management at scale
• Experience with test infrastructure, including intelligent test selection and flake management
• Experience building CLI tools and developer-facing services
• GitHub API and automation experience
• Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification

• Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis