Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

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
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• 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

• 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

• 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

Annual Salary: $405,000 — $485,000 USD

• Minimum education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience:
  Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location‑based hybrid policy:
  We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship:
  We sponsor visas, and will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa if an offer is made.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. We strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.