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Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration

Location
London, UK
Compensation
£325k–£390k/yr
Level
staff
Type
full time · Remote OK

Requirements

Experience
10+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Sponsorship available

Benefits

Parental Leave Competitive Compensation Generous Vacation Flexible Working Hours Equity Donation Matching

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Software Engineer for Continuous Integration at Anthropic will focus on designing and maintaining robust CI infrastructure that supports a high volume of code deployments. Key skills include expertise in CI orchestration tools and experience with container orchestration, as well as a commitment to enhancing developer productivity. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over a decade of experience in large-scale CI/CD systems who thrive in collaborative environments. Anthropic emphasizes a cohesive team approach to AI research, making communication skills particularly valuable.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration role remote?
It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in London, UK.
What's the salary range?
Anthropic lists £325,000–£390,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration role.
Where is the role based?
Anthropic is hiring for this position in London, UK.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Buildkite, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Kubernetes.
Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?
Anthropic targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

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 is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Continuous Integration (CI) team within the Developer Productivity organization. The CI team is responsible for the infrastructure that enables hundreds of engineers to ship code safely and efficiently to production. By joining this team, you'll have a direct impact on the velocity and reliability of Anthropic's research and product development.

The CI team manages Anthropic's continuous integration system, which includes:

  • CI infrastructure for automated testing and code quality assurance across our monorepo, designed to scale with rapid growth
  • Test infrastructure that runs on Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers, handling intelligent test selection, execution, and reporting for a large and complex test suite
  • Merge queue management and complex branching strategies that ensure code quality at scale
  • CI tooling and automation to improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead

Responsibilities

  • Design and build highly reliable, scalable CI infrastructure that supports thousands of daily builds across multiple cloud providers
  • Develop intelligent test selection systems that reduce CI time while maintaining code quality
  • Build and improve incident response automation, including cluster load shedding, automatic recovery, and observability tooling
  • Improve test infrastructure reliability through flake detection, quarantine systems, and test state management

You may be a good fit if you

  • Have 10+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale CI/CD systems
  • Have deep experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar)
  • Are obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
  • Have experience with container orchestration at scale
  • Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
  • Care deeply about reliability and building systems that "never fail the same way twice"

Strong candidates may also have

  • Experience with merge queues and branch management at scale
  • Experience with test infrastructure, including intelligent test selection and flake management
  • Experience building CLI tools and developer-facing services
  • GitHub API and automation experience

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:
£325,000£390,000 GBP

Logistics

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: Currently, 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 do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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