Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

at Anthropic

📍 San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 405,000-485,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

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Details

Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join the Developer Acceleration team within the Developer Productivity organization. The team builds infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive through agents, including an Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents and Knowledge systems for providing relevant internal context to agents and humans.

Responsibilities

Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier.
Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the area, translating goals into concrete execution.
Define quality standards for agent-driven engineering work and maintain them across the company.
Build and ship the runtime platform and tooling.
Build agent harnesses and experiment with context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness.
Write evaluations to benchmark agent behaviors.
Deliver impact through cross-team collaboration.
Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices.

Requirements

10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
3+ years of experience leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or technical lead.
Significant experience with agents, such as agents performing technical or knowledge work.
Strong interest in productivity and transforming how people work.
Experience building scalable platforms.
Excellent communication skills and an interest in supporting internal partners.
Minimum education of a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of and concern for how human work will evolve, along with a desire to help guide that transition.
Experience with container or virtual machine orchestration at scale.
Experience working with researchers and engineers.
Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, including CI/CD and build systems.
Experience building widely adopted command-line interface tools and services.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration. The role has a location-based hybrid policy: staff are currently expected to work from one of the company's offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time.

Anthropic sponsors visas for some roles and candidates and makes reasonable efforts to support visa applications, with assistance from an immigration lawyer.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.