Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra
Menlo Ventures PortfolioNew York, NY · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$320,000 – $485,000
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What this role is
This role leads infrastructure strategy for Anthropic's GPU and TPU fleet, owning the full lifecycle from cloud ingestion through automated repair and health management. It suits experienced systems engineers who can drive large-scale reliability initiatives across multiple cloud providers and accelerator types.
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What they ask for
Required
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud platforms
- Strong proficiency in a systems language and infrastructure-as-code
- Hands-on experience with ML accelerators
- Track record leading complex multi-quarter technical initiatives across teams
- Ability to build alignment with senior stakeholders
Nice to have
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with technical leadership
- Experience managing large-scale compute infrastructure at 10K+ nodes
- Depth in Kubernetes internals, cluster orchestration, or node provisioning
- Low-level systems knowledge of kernel, virtualization, or hardware diagnostics
- High-performance networking experience (EFA, RDMA, InfiniBand)
- Production reliability ownership for high-throughput latency-sensitive systems
- Open-source contributions to Kubernetes, Linux, or container runtimes
- Systems design tradeoff analysis skills