Staff Engineer, Datacenter Server Lifecycle at Anthropic

On-site - London, UK

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Anthropic is expanding beyond cloud infrastructure, and this role sits at the heart of that effort. As a Staff Engineer on the Datacenter Server Lifecycle team, you will own the end-to-end operational journey of every machine in our facility — from initial provisioning and deployment, across its working life, through maintenance and refresh, and all the way to decommissioning. This is greenfield work: you will help define the processes, tooling, and operational standards that govern how we run and retire hardware at scale, with a deep intersection with security to ensure that every machine is trusted, attested, and operating with a verified chain of integrity.

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, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and 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 operations, hardware infrastructure management, or a closely related discipline
  • Hands-on experience with GPU or AI accelerator hardware (e.g., NVIDIA A100/H100, AMD MI300, Google TPUs, or AWS Trainium) and an understanding of their operational demands
  • Familiarity with modern provisioning tooling such as coreboot, LinuxBoot, or u-root
  • Experience building or contributing to datacenter automation or fleet management platforms
  • Experience building and deploying server operating system distributions across 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

Responsibilities

  • Lead the build-out of automation to support datacenters containing tens of thousands of servers
  • Define and own the end-to-end server lifecycle strategy — from provisioning and deployment through operation, maintenance, refresh, and decommissioning — and maintain automation and operational procedures for common lifecycle events
  • Partner closely with Infrastructure Security to design and enforce trusted compute standards across the server lifecycle
  • Work closely with our 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

PythonRustGoJavaKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeAWSGCPNVIDIA A100NVIDIA H100AMD MI300Google TPUsAWS TrainiumcorebootLinuxBootu-roottrusted compute standards

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