[Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Systems

Company: Anthropic

Location: San Francisco, CA

Salary: $405k - $485k per year

Type: Full-time

Level: Junior

Posted: 2026-02-14

About this role

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 is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand.


The Systems engineering team owns compute uptime and resilience at massive scale, building the clusters, automation, and observability that make frontier AI research possible and safely deployable to customers.


*Team Matching: Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams.*
Responsibilities

  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
  • Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines)
  • Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
  • Partner with cloud providers and internal stakeholders to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
  • Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call)

You May Be a Good Fit If You

  • Have 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • Have led complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or sys...

Create Your Job Alert

Other Jobs in San Francisco