# Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/27d1dadc-b729-4b60-8bb3-be2b7badb0a3

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 technical strategy for Anthropic's compute cluster infrastructure, owning the full lifecycle of provisioning, updates, and decommissioning across cloud and datacenter environments at unprecedented scale. It's suited to a seasoned infrastructure engineer who has operated hyperscale systems and can set direction across multiple teams while building operational excellence practices.

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

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Mesos, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Go, Istio, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Python, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Rust, Terraform

## Required

- Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms
- Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or Python)
- IaC proficiency with Terraform
- Track record of leading complex multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems
- Ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels

## Nice to have

- 10+ years of software engineering experience including time as a technical lead
- Experience operating large-scale compute infrastructure at hyperscale (100+ clusters, 10K+ nodes)
- Depth in Kubernetes internals, cluster provisioning and management systems, or cluster orchestration systems
- Experience with cloud networking (VPC design, peering, Cloud Interconnect, BGP, edge load balancing, DDoS mitigation)
- Experience with cluster and host networking (CNI, eBPF, NetworkPolicy, multi-NIC, sFlow, service mesh)
- Experience with cluster security (pod security standards, admission control, RBAC, node and container hardening, image provenance)
- Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Atlantis) and workflow orchestration (Temporal, Argo Workflows)
- Skill in understanding systems design tradeoffs and tracking rapidly evolving software systems

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5206978008