Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA. Hybrid policy requires staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office attendance.

Annual salary: $320,000–$485,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for agent-driven cluster provisioning, updates, lifecycle management, and decommissioning.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, research, inference, product, security, and cloud-provider partners to bring compute capacity online.
• Design high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity across cloud environments and Anthropic datacenters.
• Define strategies for cluster scalability, homogeneity, security-by-default provisioning, and fault tolerance.
• Establish operational-excellence practices including incident response, postmortems, and sustainable on-call operations.
• Mentor and coach engineers while leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives across teams and systems.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems language, including Rust, Go, or Python, and in infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems and aligning senior stakeholders.
• Experience operating large-scale compute infrastructure at hyperscale, including 100+ clusters or 10K+ nodes.
• Expertise in cluster provisioning, orchestration, cloud networking, cluster networking, security, or infrastructure automation.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership and direction-setting.
• Experience with Kubernetes internals, Mesos- or Borg-like orchestration, Cilium, eBPF, service meshes, and mTLS.
• Experience with VPC design, peering, Transit Gateway, Cloud Interconnect, Direct Connect, BGP, route control, and DDoS mitigation.
• Experience with Terraform, Atlantis, Temporal, or Argo Workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business teams on large-scale AI efforts.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment for collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration-lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.