About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2 class="mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold" data-sourcepos="3:1-3:18;44-61">About the role</h2> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="5:1-5:316;63-378">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 Anthropic depends on.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="7:1-7:281;380-660">As a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you ll scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, make the architectural decisions other engineers build on, and work with research and product teams to build systems that keep pace as their needs change.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="9:1-9:196;662-857">Team placement happens after the interview process, based on your interests and experience alongside organizational needs. This helps us match you with the team where you ll have the most impact.</p> <h2 class="mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold" data-sourcepos="11:1-11:24;859-882">Key responsibilities</h2> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1" data-sourcepos="13:1-20:71;884-1733"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="13:1-13:141;884-1024">Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="14:1-14:92;1025-1116">Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation other engineers and teams build on</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="15:1-15:96;1117-1212">Drive alignment on technical direction across teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="16:1-16:133;1213-1345">Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and turn them into technical designs</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="17:1-17:103;1346-1448">Own the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="18:1-18:70;1449-1518">Set technical strategy and standards for your team s infrastructure</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="19:1-19:144;1519-1662">Build and improve operational processes such as incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations, so the team learns from every incident</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="20:1-20:71;1663-1733">Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team</li> </ul> <h2 class="mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold" data-sourcepos="22:1-22:26;1735-1760">Minimum qualifications</h2> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1" data-sourcepos="24:1-29:113;1762-2424"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="24:1-24:112;1762-1873">Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="25:1-25:103;1874-1976">A history of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="26:1-26:84;1977-2060">Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="27:1-27:137;2061-2197">Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language (for example, Python, Rust, Go, or Java)</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="28:1-28:114;2198-2311">Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="29:1-29:113;2312-2424">Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across teams or stakeholders</li> </ul> <h2 class="mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold" data-sourcepos="31:1-31:28;2426-2453">Preferr