# Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** £325k – £390k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Github Api, Cli Tools, Test Selection, Test Infrastructure, Merge Queues, Branch Management, Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Build and operate highly reliable continuous integration infrastructure, intelligent test-selection systems, and incident-response automation at scale. The role requires 10+ years of experience with large-scale CI/CD systems, container orchestration, and developer productivity tooling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable, scalable CI infrastructure supporting thousands of daily builds across multiple cloud providers.
- Develop intelligent test-selection systems that reduce CI time while maintaining code quality.
- Build and improve incident-response automation, including cluster load shedding, automatic recovery, and observability tooling.
- Improve test-infrastructure reliability through flake detection, quarantine systems, and test-state management.

## Requirements
- **10+ years** of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale CI/CD systems.
- Deep experience with CI orchestration tools such as Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
- Strong focus on developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with container orchestration at scale.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to support internal partners.
- Strong commitment to reliability and building systems that avoid repeated failure modes.

## Nice to haves
- Experience with merge queues and branch management at scale.
- Experience with test infrastructure, including intelligent test selection and flake management.
- Experience building CLI tools and developer-facing services.
- GitHub API and automation experience.

## Compensation and benefits
- Annual salary: **£325,000–£390,000 GBP**.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Generous vacation and parental leave.
- Flexible working hours.
- Office space for collaboration.
- Visa sponsorship may be available depending on the role and candidate.

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