Anthropic, a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, is looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the Datacenter Server Lifecycle team. The role involves owning the end‑to‑end operational journey of servers across the company's global facilities, from provisioning and deployment to maintenance and decommissioning. The engineer will design automation, tooling, and standards to support large‑scale datacenter operations, collaborate closely with Infrastructure Security, Networking, and other teams, and help define AI‑native workflows and trusted compute standards for high‑security workloads.
Staff Engineer, Datacenter Server Lifecycle at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
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USD 320,000 - 405,000
Requirements
Skills
- Hands‑on experience with server hardware, including rack deployment, cabling, troubleshooting, and understanding failure modes at scale
- End‑to‑end understanding of hardware lifecycle management: asset tracking, provisioning workflows, maintenance scheduling, and decommissioning practices
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, or Java)
- Working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and large‑scale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Ability to communicate clearly and build consensus with a wide range of stakeholders
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and making progress on complex, cross‑functional problems
- Willingness to travel occasionally to datacenter sites across North America
- 8+ years of experience in datacenter infrastructure management or a closely related discipline
- Hands‑on experience with GPU or AI accelerator hardware (NVIDIA A100/H100, Google TPUs, or AWS Trainium) and understanding of their operational demands
- Familiarity with modern provisioning and OS tooling such as LinuxBoot and NixOS
- Experience building or contributing to datacenter automation or fleet management platforms
- Experience building and deploying server operating system distributions across tens of thousands of hosts
- Background in large‑scale capacity planning and hardware refresh strategy, ideally at a hyperscaler or large cloud provider
- Experience with trusted compute and hardware security concepts such as secure boot, TPM, hardware attestation, and firmware verification
Responsibilities
- Build automation to support datacenters containing tens of thousands of servers
- Define and own the end‑to‑end system lifecycle strategy – from provisioning and deployment through operation, maintenance, refresh, and decommissioning – and maintain automation and operational procedures for common lifecycle events (e.g., hardware failures, firmware upgrades, fleet rotations)
- Partner closely with Infrastructure Security to design and enforce trusted compute standards across the server lifecycle
- Work closely with the Networking team to ensure end‑to‑end connectivity across all sites
- Build and maintain tooling to track machine health, configuration, and operational status across the full datacenter fleet
Technologies
Server hardwareRack deploymentCablingKubernetesAWSAzureGCPPythonRustGoJavaLinuxBootNixOSSecure bootTPMHardware attestationFirmware verificationGPU accelerator hardware (NVIDIA A100/H100, Google TPUs, AWS Trainium)
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