Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

About the Position

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA

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 is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. The Developer Acceleration team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. By joining this team, you'll have a direct impact on the velocity and quality of Anthropic's research and engineering development. You will be defining how AI transforms our work and building the future of agentic productivity.

Some things that the team owns:

• Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents
• Knowledge for providing relevant internal context to agents and humans

Some of our work is mentioned in When AI Builds itself and Building effective human-agent teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating goals into concrete execution
• Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work, and hold that line across the company
• Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
• Build agent harnesses and experiment with various context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
• Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
• Deliver impact by collaborating cross-team
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices

Requirements

• Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Have a lot of experience with agents, e.g., agents doing technical/knowledge work
• Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
• Have experience building scalable platforms
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Nice to Have

• Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
• Experience working with researchers and engineers
• Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD, builds, etc.
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services

We Offer

• Annual Salary: $405,000-$485,000 USD
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space in San Francisco and Seattle

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.