Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold" data-sourcepos="3:1-3:18;44-61">About the role</h2> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="5:1-5:316;63-378">Anthropic's Infrastructure organization builds and operates the distributed systems that train, serve, and secure our AI models. That includes data pipelines, some of the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world, and the databases, observability, and developer tooling that every other team at Anthropic depends on.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="7:1-7:281;380-660">As a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you'll scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, make the architectural decisions other engineers build on, and work with research and product teams to build systems that keep pace as their needs change.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="9:1-9:196;662-857">Team placement happens after the interview process, based on your interests and experience alongside organizational needs. This helps us match you with the team where you'll have the most impact.</p> <h2 class="mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold" data-sourcepos="11:1-11:24;859-882">Key responsibilities</h2> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1" data-sourcepos="13:1-20:71;884-1733"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whites