Staff Software Engineer Kubernetes Platform
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 own and extend the Kubernetes scheduler, scale control-plane components, and operate core cluster services. You will build controllers, operators, and CRDs; translate workload requirements into platform capabilities; collaborate with cloud providers; and lead incident response and reliability practices.
Requirements
- Distributed systems
- Go, Python, Rust, or C++
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes scheduler
- Kubernetes controllers
- Kubernetes API server
- Multi-tenant clusters
- Debugging
- Reliability engineering
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Own, operate, and extend the Kubernetes scheduler
- Scale Kubernetes control-plane components
- Design, build, and operate core cluster services
- Build and maintain custom controllers, operators, and CRDs
- Translate workload requirements into platform capabilities
- Collaborate with cloud providers
- Participate in on-call and lead incident response
- Develop postmortems, runbooks, and SLOs
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours