Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration at Anthropic

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA

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Anthropic is seeking experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join its Developer Acceleration team within the Developer Productivity organization. The team builds infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents, impacting the velocity and quality of Anthropic’s research and engineering development. Responsibilities include defining agentic productivity, owning technical strategy and roadmap, building and shipping runtime platforms, and ensuring scalability and reliability.

Salary

USD 405,000 - 485,000

Requirements

Skills

  • 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • Experience with agents, eg. agents doing technical/knowledge work
  • Obsession with productivity and transforming how we work
  • Experience building scalable platforms
  • Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
  • 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
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

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

Technologies

agentscontainer orchestrationVM orchestrationCI/CDbuild toolsCLI tools

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