Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build distributed systems that train, serve and secure frontier AI models.
- Lead multi-month infrastructure projects from ambiguity to production.
- Set technical strategy shaping foundations other teams build on.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A seasoned infrastructure leader who thrives in ambiguity and owns large-scale systems end-to-end. You enjoy aligning teams, mentoring engineers, and building reliable foundations for research and product.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production
- Track record 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
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code on AWS and/or GCP
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience driving alignment across teams
- remote policy
- Hybrid - at least 25% time in one of our offices
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available with reasonable effort, subject to role and candidate
- hiring process
- Applications reviewed on a rolling basis; team placement happens after the interview process
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google