Anthropic
Principal Engineer Capacity/Compute
$320K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job-level requirements; no specific number is stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; field relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not 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 planning, allocating, measuring, and forecasting Anthropic’s compute capacity and infrastructure costs.
What you'll do
- Build data pipelines, planning tools, and allocation systems for compute capacity across providers and regions.
- Improve workload utilization through instrumentation, benchmarking, capacity recovery, and coordination with system-owning teams.
- Reconcile infrastructure billing with telemetry, attribute costs, forecast compute demand, and operate Kubernetes-native systems.
What they ask for
- Strong track record building and operating production systems.
- Production-quality Python and SQL skills.
- Deep operational 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 at scale.
- Experience with scheduling efficiency, multi-cloud data ingestion, forecasting, accelerator infrastructure, or internal data products.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Prometheus, PromQL, Grafana, DCGM
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