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
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

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;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

AI CI/CD @ 4 Communication @ 6 Distributed Systems @ 8

Details

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. They want AI to be safe and beneficial for their users and for society as a whole. The Developer Acceleration team is described as a group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. The Developer Acceleration team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the velocity and quality of Anthropic's research and engineering development. You will be defining how AI transforms their work and building the future of agentic productivity.

Some things that the team owns:

Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents
Knowledge 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 your area, translating goals into concrete execution
Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work, and hold that line across the company
Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
Build agent harnesses and experiment with various context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
Deliver impact by collaborating cross-team
Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices

Requirements

Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
Have a lot of experience with agents, e.g. agents doing technical/knowledge work
Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how they work
Have experience building scalable platforms
Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Strong Candidates May Also Have

Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
Experience working with researchers and engineers
Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD and builds
Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, they expect all staff to be in one of their offices at least 25% of the time; however, some roles may require more time in their offices.
Visa sponsorship: They do sponsor visas, and if they make an offer they will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa; they retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
Compensation: Annual Salary $405,000 - $485,000 USD