# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $405k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Rust, Bazel, Kubernetes, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Merge Queue, Canary Deployment
**Posted:** 2026-06-19

> Staff-level IC role owning end-to-end CI/CD, merge queue, and deploy pipelines for Anthropic's engineering org. Focus on AI-assisted review, test reliability, and progressive delivery at monorepo scale.

## Job Description

## Key responsibilities
- Own the build, test, merge, and deploy pipeline end to end — what runs on each PR, what auto-approves, what gates merge, and how a change progresses to running healthy in production
- Drive down and defend "time from push to healthy in prod" as a core engineering metric
- Design and tune AI-assisted code review so confidence-to-land scales with PR volume
- Build the deploy and release path — canary, progressive rollout, health checks, automated rollback — in partnership with the platform teams who own the underlying substrate
- Improve test reliability by quarantining, root-causing, and retiring intermittent failures
- Shape CI and repository topology (build graph, test targeting, scope boundaries) to match how the company actually ships
- Partner with platform, delivery infrastructure, and security teams, and represent Developer Productivity in cross-org pipeline decisions
- Design processes (postmortem review, incident response, on-call) that help the team operate reliably and never fail the same way twice

## Minimum qualifications
- Significant backend or developer-infrastructure engineering experience, with hands-on responsibility for a high-leverage CI/CD, merge queue, or land pipeline at scale
- Proficiency in Python and at least one statically-typed systems language (e.g., Go or Rust)
- Experience operating CI/CD or release systems through production incidents, including writing postmortems and driving remediations
- Demonstrated ability to work across team boundaries — building consensus with platform, security, and product engineering stakeholders
- Comfort using AI coding tools as a daily part of your workflow, with informed opinions on where they provide leverage

## Preferred qualifications
- 7+ years of backend or developer-infrastructure experience
- Experience with Bazel or similar build-graph / test-targeting systems at monorepo scale
- Experience with progressive delivery or release engineering at scale (canary analysis, automated rollback, health-gated promotion)
- A track record of leading — or making the well-reasoned case against — a repo split, monorepo extraction, or comparable scope-boundary migration
- A history of authoring engineering policy or paved-path tooling that other teams adopted voluntarily
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or comparable CI/deploy substrates
- Interest in the safe and beneficial development of AI

## Representative projects
- Reducing p50 merge-to-production time by re-architecting the merge queue and test selection strategy
- Building an AI-assisted review layer that auto-approves low-risk changes and routes high-risk ones to the right reviewers
- Designing a flaky-test quarantine and burndown system that returned CI signal to >99% reliability
- Standing up canary and progressive rollout for a service fleet, with automated rollback on health regression
- Authoring the RFC and migration plan for a build-graph or repository topology change adopted across multiple teams

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