Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

What it asks for · 6

• Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Have a lot of experience with agents, eg. agents doing technical/knowledge work
• Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
• Have experience building scalable platforms
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Also a plus

• Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
• Experience working with researchers and engineers
• Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD, builds, etc.
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services

What the job covers

• Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating goals into concrete execution
• Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work, and hold that line across the company
• Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
• Build agent harnesses and experiment with various context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
• Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
• Deliver impact by collaborating cross-team
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• agents9×
• experience7×
• building5×
• productivity5×
• build4×
• engineer4×
• developer acceleration3×
• infrastructure3×
• scale3×
• agentic productivity2×
• context2×
• define2×
• developer productivity2×
• engineering2×
• experience building2×
• future agentic2×

Counted from the posting after the mission statement and the legal notices are set aside. The ones near the top are the ones a screener is looking for.

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