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
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