Anthropic
Principal Engineer Capacity/Compute
$320K–$485K
Seattle, WA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 18, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Required years correlate with internal job level; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not guaranteed for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Build and operate production systems for tracking, planning, allocating, and improving utilization and cost attribution across Anthropic’s compute infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build capacity planning and allocation tools, including fleet health, scheduling, and occupancy monitoring.
- Develop data pipelines and attribution and forecasting systems that reconcile infrastructure telemetry, usage, and costs.
- Measure and improve workload efficiency, and operate Kubernetes-native infrastructure at scale.
What they ask for
- Strong track record building and operating production systems.
- Production-quality Python and SQL skills.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with observability tooling, including Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana.
Nice to have
- Experience with capacity planning, resource management, or cost attribution systems at hyperscaler or large-scale ML environments.
- Experience with scheduling and packing efficiency, multi-cloud ingestion, forecasting, accelerator infrastructure, or internal data products.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Prometheus
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