14 days ago
Base Salary
$320k - $485k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, updates, and decommissioning.
- Partner across teams to ensure new compute capacity is ingested on time.
- Coordinate physical build-out and cloud solutions for high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity.
- Collaborate with security owners to provision clusters secure by default.
- Define and drive strategy for cluster scalability, homogeneity, and fault tolerance.
- Shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy with cloud providers and internal research, inference, and product teams.
- Establish operational-excellence practices including incident response, postmortems, and on-call health.
- Support engineer growth through technical mentorship and coaching.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong proficiency in at least one systems language such as Rust, Go, or Python, plus Terraform infrastructure-as-code proficiency.
- A track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems.
- Ability to align senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels.
- Preferred: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership setting direction for a team.
- Preferred: experience operating hyperscale compute infrastructure with 100+ clusters and 10K+ nodes.
- Preferred: depth in Kubernetes internals, cluster provisioning and management systems, or Mesos/Borg-like orchestration systems.
- Preferred: experience with cloud networking, cluster and host networking, cluster security, Terraform and Atlantis, and Temporal or Argo Workflows.
- Preferred: ability to quickly understand systems-design tradeoffs and track rapidly evolving software systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $320,000–$485,000 USD.
- Hybrid policy currently expects staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible roles and candidates, with immigration-lawyer support.
- Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and collaborative office space.
- Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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About Anthropic
We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.