Staff+ Software Engineer (Pipeline, Developer Acceleration)

• Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization
• The Developer Acceleration team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents
• By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the velocity and quality of Anthropic’s research and engineering development. You will be defining how AI transforms our work and building the future of agentic productivity
• Some things that the team owns:
• Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents
• Knowledge for providing relevant internal context to agents and humans
• 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

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 excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
• Have a lot of experience with agents, eg. agents doing technical/knowledge work
• Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
• Have experience building scalable platforms
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• 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
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
• Experience working with researchers and engineers
• Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD, builds, etc

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