Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

New York, NY · full time · Staff

$405,000 – $625,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role leads developer productivity infrastructure at Anthropic, owning the build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that enable engineers across the company to develop and ship code at scale. It suits senior engineers with deep experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure in monorepo environments who are passionate about reducing developer friction.

Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Deep experience with build systems and CI/CD pipelines in large monorepo environments
Proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or Go
Obsession with developer productivity and reducing software development friction
Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale
Excellent communication skills and ability to support internal partners

Nice to have

15+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
3+ years leading large-scale complex projects or teams as a tech lead
Experience with CI orchestration tools like Buildkite, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions and merge queue management at scale
Experience building or operating remote build execution systems
Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image or package sets at scale
Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API automation workflows