Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

at Anthropic

📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 405,000-485,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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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 @ 4 API @ 4 CI/CD @ 7 Communication @ 4 Docker @ 4 GitHub @ 4 GitHub Actions @ 4 Go @ 7 Jenkins @ 4 Python @ 7 Rust @ 7 Software Development @ 4

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Infrastructure organization builds the systems that enable training, safety experiments, and scaling Claude. Developer Productivity owns the end-to-end experience for how engineers and researchers develop, build, test, and ship code at scale — from source control and language ecosystems in a monorepo, to build and CI infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, to developer acceleration tooling that integrates Claude into engineering workflows.

Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Candidates may be considered for different Infrastructure teams based on fit.

Responsibilities

Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
Define infrastructure architecture and ensure hard problems are solved directly or through others
Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries supporting high-volume workloads across engineering teams
Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

Requirements

10+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
Deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment
Strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go
Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale
Obsession with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
Excellent communication skills and experience supporting internal partners to improve their development experience
Comfortable designing foundational systems and working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

Strong candidates may have

Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale
Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar)
Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image/package sets at scale
Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API automation workflows

Compensation

Annual Salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD

Logistics

Education: At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more office time)
Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist, though not every role/candidate can be successfully sponsored