# Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $405k – $625k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Rust, Go, CI/CD, Build Systems, Bazel, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Nix, Docker, Kubernetes, Monorepo, Remote Build Execution
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> Leads technical strategy and builds scalable developer infrastructure including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling for large monorepo environments. Requires 3+ years leading complex projects, proficiency in Python/Rust/Go, and experience with container orchestration.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
- Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
- **Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries** that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams
- Own and evolve **build environments, package management, and dependency systems** to enable fast, reproducible builds
- Define and implement **language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks** that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

## Requirements
- **3+ years** (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
- Deep experience with **build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling** in a large monorepo environment
- Strong proficiency in **Python, Rust and/or Go**
- Obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
- Experience with **container orchestration and infrastructure at scale**
- Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners to improve their development experience
- Excited about designing foundational systems and comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

## Nice-to-Haves
- **15+ years** (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
- Experience with **CI orchestration tools** (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale
- Experience building or operating **remote build execution systems** (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar)
- Experience with **Nix/NixOS/Docker** and managing large image / package sets at scale
- Experience building **CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows**

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