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Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)
Menlo Ventures PortfolioNew York, NY · full time · Staff
$320,000 – $485,000
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What this role is
Anthropic seeks a senior infrastructure engineer to lead the design and operation of the distributed systems powering their AI research, including massive Kubernetes deployments and ML training infrastructure. This role suits engineers with deep experience building large-scale systems who thrive on architectural problems and cross-team collaboration.
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Track record of scoping and delivering complex multi-month technical projects independently
- Experience making architectural decisions for other teams to build on
- Strong fundamentals in at least one programming language
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes and IaC on AWS or GCP
- Strong written and verbal communication with cross-team alignment experience
Nice to have
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Machine learning infrastructure experience (GPUs, TPUs, Trainium, NCCL)
- Low-level systems work like Linux kernel tuning or eBPF
- Security or privacy engineering background
- Prior technical leadership or mentoring experience