Staff+ Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

• Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Infrastructure Engineers to join our team and support the development, scaling, and maintenance of our cutting-edge AI systems
• By joining our Infrastructure team, you will have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking AI technologies and contribute to the development of frontier models, supporting Anthropic’s mission to create safe and reliable AI systems that benefit humanity
• Lead build out of industry-leading AI clusters (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines), partnering closely with cloud service providers on cluster build out and required features
• Consult with different stakeholders to deeply understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, identifying potential solutions to support frontier research and product development
• Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale, reliable infrastructure systems
• Mentor top technical talent
• Design processes (e.g. postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively and never fail the same way twice

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

• Possess deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP
• Have a passion for supporting internal partners like research to understand their needs
• Have excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Have 10+ years of relevant industry experience, 3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, Java)
• Are obsessed with distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
• Security and privacy best practice expertise
• Technical expertise: Quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure like GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium, as well as supporting networking infrastructure like NCCL
• Low level systems experience, for example linux kernel tuning and eBPF
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices
• Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• We have multiple teams that are currently hiring
• Team placement occurs after the interview process, taking into account your interests and experience alongside organizational needs
• This flexible approach allows us to match talented engineers with the infrastructure teams where they’ll have the greatest impact and growth potential