Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand. Node Infra owns the full lifecycle of accelerator capacity at Anthropic.

We ingest and provision compute from all major CSPs and our own datacenters, stand up and scale clusters from thousands to hundreds of thousands of hosts, and build the health, diagnostics and repair automation that keep every GPU, TPU and Trainium node in the fleet usable and ready to power Anthropic’s frontier AI research.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management - ingestion, bring-up, health checking, and automated repair Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and accelerator families Design and operate the systems that detect, isolate, and remediate unhealthy hardware automatically, driving up fleet MTBI and minimizing stranded capacity Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved - whether by you directly or by working through others Work closely with cloud providers and internal research/inference/product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call) Support the growth of engineers around you through technical mentorship and coaching

Minimum Qualifications

, Rust, Go, or Python), IaC proficiency with Terraform.

Preferred Qualifications

12+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead setting direction for a team Experience managing large scale compute infrastructure at hyperscale (10K+ nodes), including capacity management and efficiency Depth in one or more of: Kubernetes internals (scheduler, autoscaler, kubelet, Karpenter), cluster orchestration systems (Mesos, Borg-like), or node provisioning pipelines Low-level systems experience: kernel, virtualization, device drivers, firmware, or hardware health/diagnostics daemons Familiarity with high-performance networking (EFA, RDMA, InfiniBand) for distributed ML workloads.

Compensation

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