Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (Dev Environments) - Claude Code at Anthropic

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA

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We are building Claude and need a Staff Software Engineer to own the development environment end‑to‑end, speeding up container startup, designing isolation boundaries, and building pre‑push validation to catch problems locally. The role involves leading across teams, shaping repository topology, and driving a fast inner loop for engineers.

Salary

USD 405,000 - 485,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Significant professional software engineering experience in backend or developer infrastructure domains
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Hands‑on experience with containers (Docker or equivalent), Kubernetes, and pod‑level operations
  • Prior ownership of a developer environment, build system, or paved‑path workflow used by a multi‑team engineering organization, with demonstrable adoption
  • Experience working across team boundaries to deliver infrastructure that other engineers depend on
  • Daily, hands‑on use of AI coding assistants as part of your own development workflow

Responsibilities

  • Own the local and hosted development environment end to end — container lifecycle, dependency provisioning, hot reload, and the single command an engineer runs to start working
  • Drive down cold‑start time for fresh development environments and keep it low as the codebase grows
  • Design and implement the environment isolation model (sandboxes, ephemeral environments, namespace separation) that lets engineers experiment freely without risk to shared systems
  • Build and maintain the pre‑push validation surface so failures are caught on the engineer's machine, not in CI
  • Partner with platform, delivery infrastructure, and tooling teams to shape the repository and service topology that best supports a fast inner loop
  • Act as a technical lead across team boundaries — gathering requirements, building consensus, and advocating for the approach that's right for engineers across Anthropic

Technologies

PythonDockerKubernetesRustGoBazelBuckNix

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