Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Developer Acceleration team within the Developer Productivity organization is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. This role will define the future of agentic productivity at scale.

• Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area
• Define quality for agent-driven engineering work
• Build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
• Build agent harnesses and experiment with context management strategies
• Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• 3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams
• Experience with agents doing technical/knowledge work
• Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
• Experience building scalable platforms
• Excellent communication skills

• Deep understanding of how human work will evolve
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
• Experience working with researchers and engineers
• Developer productivity or infrastructure experience (CI/CD, builds)
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services

Annual salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD. Benefits include parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space. Visa sponsorship is available.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA. Anthropic expects all staff to be in one of its offices at least 25% of the time.

Apply via the Greenhouse posting. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.