Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

USD 405,000-485,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Hybrid
✅ Visa Sponsorship

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

CI/CD @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 8 Communication @ 7 AI @ 4

Details

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company builds AI systems with focus on safety and societal benefit and comprises researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together on large-scale research efforts.

Role description

Join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization to help build infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. The team owns agent runtime and internal knowledge systems, and you will shape how AI transforms internal engineering workflows by building agent runtimes, tooling, and context-management systems.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy and roadmap for your area and translate goals into execution
  • Build and ship runtime platforms and tooling for agent provisioning and execution
  • Build agent harnesses and experiment with context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
  • Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors and measure quality
  • Own infrastructure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence practices
  • Collaborate cross-team to deliver impact and support internal partners

Requirements

  • 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • 3+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • Significant experience with agents (agents performing technical/knowledge work)
  • Experience building scalable platforms and owning platform reliability and operational practices
  • Strong communication skills and experience working with internal partners (researchers and engineers)
  • Interest in developer productivity, transforming how teams work, and building productivity tooling

Strong candidates may also have

  • Deep understanding of how human work will evolve alongside AI-driven tools
  • Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
  • Developer productivity or infrastructure experience (CI/CD, builds, etc.)
  • Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services
  • Experience working closely with researchers and engineering teams

Compensation

  • Annual salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD

Logistics

  • Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • Location-based hybrid policy: staff expected to be in an office at least ~25% of the time (some roles may require more)
  • Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist, though sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role/candidate
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis (no stated deadline)

How we’re different

Anthropic emphasizes large-scale, high-impact AI research done as a cohesive team. The organisation values collaboration, communication, and pursuing long-term goals in AI safety and steerability.