Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

About the Role

Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. The Developer Acceleration team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. By joining this team, you'll have a direct impact on the velocity and quality of Anthropic's research and engineering development. You will be defining how AI transforms our work and building the future of agentic productivity.

Some things that the team owns:

Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents

Knowledge for providing relevant internal context to agents and humans

Some of our work is mentioned in When AI Builds itself and Building effective human-agent teams . 

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

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems

Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead

Have a lot of experience with agents, eg. agents doing technical/knowledge work

Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work

Have experience building scalable platforms

Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

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

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $405,000 — $485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:  A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:  We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if y …