Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra

About the role

Anthropic’s Infrastructure organization builds the compute foundation for safe, reliable AI. The Node Infra team owns the full lifecycle of accelerator capacity, provisioning and operating large‑scale GPU, TPU and Trainium clusters across cloud providers and custom datacenters.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management, including ingestion, bring‑up, health checking and automated repair.
• Drive cross‑team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and accelerator families.
• Design and operate systems that detect, isolate and remediate unhealthy hardware automatically, improving fleet MTBI and minimizing stranded capacity.
• Define infrastructure architecture and solve the hardest problems, working directly or through other teams.
• Collaborate with cloud providers and internal research, inference and product teams to shape long‑term compute and infrastructure strategy.
• Establish and evolve operational excellence practices such as incident response, post‑mortems and on‑call.
• Mentor and coach engineers to support their growth.

Required profile

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability and cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go or Python) and IaC with Terraform.
• Hands‑on experience with machine learning accelerators (GPUs, TPUs or Trainium).
• Track record of leading complex, multi‑quarter technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• AWS, GCP, Azure
• Rust, Go, Python
• GPU, TPU, Trainium accelerators
• Distributed systems
• High‑performance networking (EFA, RDMA, InfiniBand)

What we offer

• Competitive compensation (£325k‑£485k per year) and optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation, parental leave and flexible working hours.
• Lovely office space in London with a hybrid work policy.