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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

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,

Company

Anthropic

Location

London, UK

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-12T08:30:35+00:00

Anthropic's infrastructure group builds and runs the distributed systems behind its AI models: data pipelines, some of the largest Kubernetes clusters anywhere, plus databases, observability and developer tooling. This staff engineering role centres on leading multi-month infrastructure projects, making architectural decisions other teams build on, turning research and product compute needs into designs, and owning reliability, scalability and security, along with incident response and mentoring. The posting asks for production distributed-systems experience, cloud and Kubernetes skills, and a language such as Python, Rust, Go or Java. Team placement follows interviews. Salary listed as £325,000–£390,000.