Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

Job summary

Responsibilities

Anthropic's Infrastructure organization builds and operates the distributed systems that train, serve, and secure our AI models. That includes data pipelines, some of the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world, and the databases, observability, and developer tooling that every other team at…

• 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

What they're looking for

• 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

Tech stack

• Kubernetes
• Python
• Rust
• Go
• Java
• AWS
• GCP