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AnthropicAnthropicSan Francisco, CA

[Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

Staff+ Software Engineer building Anthropic's Agent Runtime Platform and knowledge infrastructure to enable thousands of employees to be highly productive with AI agents. Requires 10+ years large-scale distributed systems experience and agent expertise to define agentic productivity, build runtimes, write evals, and drive operational excellence.

405k – 485k
Hybrid10+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier
  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating goals into concrete execution
  • Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work, and hold that line across the company
  • Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
  • Build agent harnesses and experiment with various context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
  • Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
  • Deliver impact by collaborating cross-team
  • Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices

Requirements

  • 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • Experience with agents, e.g. agents doing technical/knowledge work
  • Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
  • Experience building scalable platforms
  • Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field

Nice-to-Haves

  • Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
  • Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
  • Experience working with researchers and engineers
  • Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD, builds, etc.
  • Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services

Skills

Distributed SystemsAgentic SystemsAgent Runtime PlatformsContext ManagementEvalsScalable PlatformsContainer OrchestrationVm OrchestrationCI/CDCli Tools

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