Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Deployment

Anthropic
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17 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$405k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and own major deployment-platform components across design, implementation, and production operations.
  • Build progressive delivery, health-gated promotion, automatic pause and rollback, and self-service deployment controls.
  • Design APIs and abstractions for engineers and AI agents, and extend the platform across Kubernetes, serverless, and edge workloads.
  • Build runtime configuration, feature-flag, infrastructure-as-code, and artifact-distribution systems at scale.
  • Partner with Security on verifiable builds, least-privilege access, and auditable production changes.
  • Work with teams across Anthropic to onboard workloads to the platform.
  • Participate in on-call and incident response and convert operational lessons into preventive guardrails.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in at least one backend or systems programming language, including Rust, Go, C++, or Java.
  • Experience leading the design, building, and operation of distributed systems or production infrastructure, including technical direction across teams.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads such as Kubernetes on AWS or GCP.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred qualifications include large-scale deployment or release systems, production on-call, Rust, progressive delivery, GitOps tooling, Kubernetes controllers and operators, Terraform, feature flags, artifact distribution, software supply-chain security, workflow engines, relational databases, internal developer platforms, and AI-agent systems.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $405,000–$485,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship is offered with reasonable efforts made after an offer, though sponsorship cannot be successfully provided for every role and candidate.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
Anthropic

About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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