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Staff+ Software Engineer in USA

  • Anthropic
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects from ambiguity through production.
  • Partner deeply with researchers and Research teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and performant systems.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical bar.
  • Drive technical alignment and architectural direction across multiple teams.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and security of systems as usage and complexity grow.
  • Improve Infrastructure operational processes, including incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or production infrastructure.
  • Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
  • Prior experience serving as a technical lead or mentoring engineers.
  • Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build upon.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, or Java.
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience aligning multiple teams or stakeholders.
  • Preferred: 10+ years of software engineering experience, excluding internships.
  • Preferred: experience with machine learning infrastructure such as GPUs, TPUs, Trainium, and NCCL networking.
  • Preferred: low-level systems experience such as Linux kernel tuning or eBPF.
  • Preferred: background in security or privacy engineering best practices.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.

Benefits

  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
  • Visa sponsorship is offered with reasonable efforts made after an offer, supported by an immigration lawyer.

Salary: $320k - $485k/yr

Anthropic

Anthropic builds AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable, with a commitment to ensuring their safety and benefit to users and society. Our work is driven by a dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and policy experts focused on the development of beneficial AI solutions.

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