Anthropic · 5 hours ago
[Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Systems
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$405K/yr - $485K/yr
10+ years expAnthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. The role involves owning the technical strategy and roadmap for infrastructure, driving initiatives to build and scale AI clusters, and ensuring operational excellence practices are established and evolved.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyFoundational AIGenerative AIMachine Learning
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)
Qualification
Required
Have 10+ years of software engineering experience
Have led complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or systems
Can set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it
Have deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP)
Are strong in at least one systems language (Python, Rust, Go, Java)
Naturally uplevel the engineers around you and can redirect efforts when things are heading off track
Build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Preferred
Security and privacy best practice expertise
Experience with machine learning infrastructure like GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium, as well as supporting networking infrastructure like NCCL
Low level systems experience, for example linux kernel tuning and eBPF
Technical expertise: Quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems
Benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Company
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research company that focuses on the safety and alignment of AI systems with human values.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (105)
2024 (13)
2023 (3)
2022 (4)
2021 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$63.74BKey Investors
Coatue,D. E. Shaw & Co.,Dragoneer Investment Group,Founders Fund,GIC,ICONIQ Capital,MGXFidelity,ICONIQ Capital,Lightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture Partners
2026-02-12Series G· $30B
2025-09-02Series F· $13B
2025-05-16Debt Financing· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Dario Amodei
CEO and Co-Founder
Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder
Recent News
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