Staff+ Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Run one of the industry's largest AI compute fleets for frontier models.
- Scale the control plane to stay responsive as clusters grow orders of magnitude.
- Build core cluster services every workload in the fleet depends on.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A seasoned distributed systems builder who thrives on large-scale, ambiguous infrastructure challenges and cares deeply about reliability and correctness. You enjoy debugging across the stack and partnering with researchers to turn needs into platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and operating production distributed systems
- Proficiency in a systems language such as Go, Python, Rust or C++
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience beyond basic usage, including scheduler, controllers or large multi-tenant clusters
- Ability to debug complex issues across the stack from API to node and network level
- Track record of designing for reliability, correctness and clear failure semantics
- Strong written and verbal communication and consensus-building with stakeholders
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available; reasonable effort to sponsor if offer made, not guaranteed for every role
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