# Staff+ Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/1e766d15-c88a-4e93-8d4e-5257f4eb7833

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 320000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the Kubernetes platform that manages Anthropic's massive AI compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. You'll architect and operate highly specialized scheduling and control systems that enable the company to train frontier AI models at unprecedented scale.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), C++, Go, Kubernetes, Linux Kernel, Python, Rust

## Required

- Significant experience building and operating production distributed systems
- Proficiency in at least one systems language (Go, Python, Rust, or C++)
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience including scheduler, controllers, apiserver, or large multi-tenant cluster operation
- Ability to debug complex issues across the full stack from API to node and network level
- Track record of designing for reliability and correctness in systems others depend on
- Strong written and verbal communication skills

## Nice to have

- Kubernetes internals contributions or experience with scheduler, apiserver, etcd, client-go, or controller-runtime
- Experience building or operating cluster schedulers or batch systems
- Background scaling control planes or coordination systems
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure including GPUs, TPUs, gang scheduling, topology-aware placement, or collective networking
- Experience with GCP and/or AWS, including GKE/EKS internals and Infrastructure as Code
- Low-level systems experience such as Linux kernel tuning, cgroups, or eBPF
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience including leading large infrastructure projects

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5211241008