Staff+ Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
Company: Anthropic
Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Salary: $405k - $485k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-09
About this role
- Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Infrastructure Engineers to join our team and support the development, scaling, and maintenance of our cutting-edge AI systems
- By joining our Infrastructure team, you will have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking AI technologies and contribute to the development of frontier models, supporting Anthropic’s mission to create safe and reliable AI systems that benefit humanity
- Lead build out of industry-leading AI clusters (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines), partnering closely with cloud service providers on cluster build out and required features
- Consult with different stakeholders to deeply understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, identifying potential solutions to support frontier research and product development
- Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale, reliable infrastructure systems
- Mentor top technical talent
- Design processes (e.g. postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively and never fail the same way twice
### Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off and absence policies
- Mental health support for you and your dependents
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
- Retirement plans with competitive matching
- Life and income protection plans
- $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
- Commuter benefits
- Annual education stipend
- Home office stipends
- Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
- Daily meals and snacks in the office- Are obsessed with distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
- Have excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both interna...