Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
$405K–$625K
San Francisco, CA +4 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 13, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 15+ years in a Software Engineer role and 3+ years leading large-scale complex projects or teams as a tech lead are listed as strong-candidate qualifications; minimum years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; a field relevant to the role, 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 and provides an immigration lawyer.
About the job
Leads strategy and engineering for developer productivity infrastructure, including build, CI, package, language ecosystem, and tooling systems used across engineering and research.
What you'll do
- Own the technical strategy, roadmap, and architecture for the assigned area.
- Build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries; evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems.
- Define language ecosystem standards, tools, and frameworks to improve productivity across research and production.
What they ask for
- Deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go.
- Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently on ambiguous technical challenges.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI orchestration and merge queue management, remote build execution, or Nix/NixOS/Docker at scale.
- Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows.
Pay
$405,000 — $625,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, Rust, Go, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn
AI focus
Build developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates Claude into engineering workflows.
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