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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
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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
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