Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Anthropic's Infrastructure organization builds and operates the distributed systems that train, serve, and secure our AI models, including data pipelines, some of the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world, along with the databases, observability, and developer tooling that every other team at Anthropic depends on. As a Staff+ Software Engineer on our Infrastructure team, you'll independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, make the architectural decisions other engineers build on, and work closely with research and product teams to understand their needs and build systems that keep pace as those needs evolve. Team placement happens after the interview process, based on your interests and experience alongside organizational needs. This lets us match you with the team where you'll have the most impact. Key responsibilities Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation of infrastructure other engineers and teams build on Drive alignment on technical direction across multiple teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and translate them into technical designs Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexi