Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff+ Software Engineer for Developer Productivity at Anthropic focuses on enhancing the development experience for engineers and researchers by managing the infrastructure that supports code building, testing, and deployment. Key skills include expertise in build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and proficiency in programming languages like Python, Rust, or Go. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with extensive experience in large-scale developer infrastructure and a passion for improving developer workflows. Anthropic's collaborative environment emphasizes impactful AI research, making this role crucial for the company's mission.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page October 28, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
Starts above 100% of 35 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States that list Python we track (median $210,000 across 21 companies). See Python salary trends
Python appears in 60.9% of 69 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States; NixOS appears in 1.4% of 69 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity role remote?: It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA.
What's the salary range?: Anthropic lists $405,000–$485,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity role.
Where is the role based?: Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Bazel, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, Buildkite, CI/CD, Docker.
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, Developer Productivity role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

About Anthropic

About the Role

Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand.

Developer Productivity owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers and researchers at Anthropic develop, build, test, and ship code at scale — from the source control and language ecosystems that underpin our monorepo, to the build and CI infrastructure that keeps thousands of daily builds running reliably across multiple cloud providers, to the developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates Claude into engineering workflows.

Team Matching: Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities:

Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others
Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams
Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds
Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks that drive developer productivity across research and production workloads

You may be a good fit if you:

Have deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment
Have strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go
Are obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle
Have experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale
Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners to improve their development experience
Are excited about designing foundational systems and are comfortable working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

Strong candidates may have:

15+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure
3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale complex projects or teams as a tech lead
Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) and merge queue management at scale
Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar)
Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image / package sets at scale
Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows

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

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:

$405,000—$625,000 USD

Logistics

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Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity