
Compensation
$405,000-$485,000Description
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration
About the Role
Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization. The Developer Acceleration team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents. By joining this team, you'll have a direct impact on the velocity and quality of Anthropic's research and engineering development. You will be defining how AI transforms our work and building the future of agentic productivity.
Some things that the team owns:
- Agent Runtime Platform for provisioning and running agents
- Knowledge for providing relevant internal context to agents and humans
Some of our work is mentioned in When AI Builds itself and Building effective human-agent teams.
Responsibilities
- Define the future of agentic productivity at scale and at the frontier
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating goals into concrete execution
- Define what quality means for agent-driven engineering work, and hold that line across the company
- Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
- Build agent harnesses and experiment with various context management strategies to improve agent performance and correctness
- Write evals to benchmark agent behaviors
- Deliver impact by collaborating cross-team
- Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, and establish operational excellence practices
You May Be a Good Fit If You:
- Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Have 3+ years of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
- Have a lot of experience with agents, eg. agents doing technical/knowledge work
- Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
- Have experience building scalable platforms
- Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
Strong Candidates May Also Have:
- Deep understanding of, and care for, how human work will evolve; and a drive to help shepherd that transition
- Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
- Experience working with researchers and engineers
- Developer productivity or infrastructure experience, such as CI/CD, builds, etc.
- Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Stack
Agentic AIDistributed SystemsCI/CD
- Posted
- Jul 2, 2026
- Last seen
- Jul 2, 2026
- First seen
- Jul 2, 2026