# Staff+ Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $320k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Promql, Grafana, AWS, GCP, Azure, Data Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-07-14

> Build and operate production data pipelines, observability tools, and planning systems to maximize utilization, efficiency, and attribution of Anthropic's large-scale multi-cloud accelerator and CPU fleet. Requires strong Python/SQL, cloud operations, and Kubernetes experience in a high-ambiguity environment.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Build the planning and allocation stack for capacity allocation, including cross-region and cross-provider placement, guardrails, queueing, and occupancy KPIs.
- Drive efficiency programs such as stranding and rightsizing, unused capacity recovery, and job-level utilization across training, inference, and eval workloads. Establish per-config baselines and collaborate with system-owning teams to improve utilization.
- Own attribution and forecasting: reconcile billing across multiple providers against telemetry and internal systems, attribute spend to workloads, and convert demand signals and research roadmaps into compute plans.
- Build the data platform: pipelines ingesting occupancy, utilization, and cost data from a diversifying fleet into BigQuery, ensuring completeness, latency SLOs, and gap detection.
- Operate Kubernetes-native systems at scale, including collection agents, workload labeling, and taint/reservation/scheduling behaviors.
- Treat outputs as products: gather requirements, define schema contracts, design for diverse consumers (research engineers to CFO), and maintain on-call and SLOs.

## What You Bring
- Strong track record building and operating production systems (hands-on engineering role with DevOps flavor).
- Production-quality Python and SQL (pipeline code in Python; BigQuery SQL including table-valued functions and views; idiomatic, tested, maintainable).
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) and its operations.
- Experience with observability tooling including Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana (writing recording rules and building relied-upon monitoring).
- Ability to gather own requirements and work across organizational boundaries in ambiguous environments with limited direction.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with capacity planning, resource management, or cost attribution at a hyperscaler or in large-scale ML environments (product engineering and developer experience counts).
- Scheduling/packing efficiency or profiling-driven optimization of large distributed workloads.
- Multi-cloud data ingestion, especially normalizing billing exports, reservation APIs, commitments, and vendor telemetry.
- Total cost of ownership and forecasting, including decomposing infrastructure growth drivers.
- Accelerator infrastructure familiarity (GPU metrics like DCGM, TPU utilization, Trainium metrics, or ML training/inference at hardware level).
- Building internal data products with self-service access, schema contracts, APIs, documentation, and discoverability.
- Storage efficiency, retention, and lifecycle at exabyte scale.

## Compensation
Annual Salary: $320000–$485000 USD

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

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