Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure Distributed Systems
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026
Funding history
About Anthropic
Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will independently lead complex infrastructure projects from initial ambiguity to production. You will make architectural decisions, align technical direction across teams, translate compute needs into designs, own system reliability and security, improve operations, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Distributed-systems engineering experience
- Infrastructure engineering experience
- Software engineering
- Python, Rust, Go, or Java proficiency
- Cloud infrastructure experience
- Kubernetes knowledge
- Infrastructure as code
- AWS or GCP knowledge
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Responsibilities
- Scope and lead complex infrastructure projects through production
- Make architectural decisions for shared infrastructure
- Drive technical alignment across multiple teams
- Translate infrastructure and compute needs into technical designs
- Own system reliability, scalability, and security
- Set infrastructure technical strategy and standards
- Improve incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations
- Mentor engineers
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
