Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra

Overview

In this role you will own the node lifecycle strategy for multi-cloud AI clusters and drive scalable infrastructure for Anthropic’s frontier research. You’ll shape hardware health and repair automation, collaborating with research and product teams to maximize compute efficiency. This is a hands-on leadership role at hyperscale, focusing on reliability, performance, and cross-team alignment to support safe and scalable AI development. You will help scale Claude by enabling robust, automated infrastructure across clouds and accelerators.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation and benefits
• optional equity donation matching
• generous vacation and parental leave
• flexible working hours
• lovely office space

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management including ingestion, bring-up, health checks, and automated repair
• Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and accelerator families
• Design and operate systems that detect, isolate, and remediate unhealthy hardware automatically to increase fleet MTBI and reduce stranded capacity
• Define infrastructure architecture to solve hard problems, directly or via teams
• Collaborate with cloud providers and internal research/product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
• Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call)
• Mentor and coach engineers to grow technical capability within the team

Key requirements

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or Python) and Terraform experience
• Hands-on experience with machine learning accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium)
• Track record leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives across teams
• Ability to align senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels

• cross-functional collaboration
• clear communication
• technical mentorship
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• AWS/GCP/Azure

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