Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · London, United Kingdom · Software Engineering - Infrastructure

This role focuses on improving the developer experience for engineers and researchers at Anthropic, a company developing AI systems. The engineer will own the technical strategy and roadmap for their area, design and build scalable distributed infrastructure, and evolve build environments and language ecosystem standards to enhance productivity in both research and production workloads. The role requires deep experience with build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling in a monorepo, and proficiency in Python, Rust, or Go.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Rust
  • Go
  • build systems
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • developer tooling
  • monorepo environments
  • container orchestration
  • distributed infrastructure

Nice to have

  • Buildkite
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Bazel Remote Execution API
  • BuildBarn
  • BuildBuddy
  • Nix/NixOS/Docker
  • CLI tools
  • developer-facing services
  • GitHub API and automation workflows

What the JD emphasized

  • 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
  • 15+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
  • 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale complex projects or teams as a tech lead