[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.
About the job
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 Systems, Agentic Systems, Agent Runtime Platforms, Context Management, Evals, Scalable Platforms, Container Orchestration, Vm Orchestration, CI/CD, Cli Tools
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