Anthropic

Technology

Staff+SoftwareEngineer,DeveloperProductivity

£325–390k London, England, United Kingdom; Manchester, United Kingdom
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity at Anthropic. Skills: Developer Productivity, Infrastructure, Distributed Systems. Own technical strategy. Define infrastructure architecture”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Solving hardest problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

15+ years Software Engineer experience, 3+ years tech lead experience, Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, Experience with CI orchestration tools, Experience building remote build execution systems, Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker, Experience building CLI tools, Experience building developer-facing services, Experience with GitHub API automation

Nice to Have

Experience with Bazel Remote Execution API, Experience with BuildBarn, Experience with BuildBuddy

What You'll Do.

Own technical strategy

Define infrastructure architecture

Design scalable infrastructure

Build scalable infrastructure

Evolve build environments

Evolve package management

Evolve dependency systems

Define language ecosystem standards

Implement language ecosystem standards

Define tooling frameworks

Implement tooling frameworks

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Supporting internal partners; Working through others

Communication Scope

Communication skills

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

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. Developer Productivity owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers and researchers at Anthropic develop, build, test, and ship code at scale — from the source control and language ecosystems that underpin our monorepo, to the build and CI infrastructure that keeps thousands of daily builds running reliably across multiple cloud providers, to the developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates Claude into engineering workflows. Team Matching: Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams. Responsibilities: Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds Define and implement language ecosystem standards, to

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