Staff Software Engineer, Systems

Anthropic

London, United Kingdom
Base: £240,000 - £325,000 gbp; bonus/equity: not s...
On-site
6+ years software engineering experience
Distributed systems and reliability knowledge
Cloud platforms kubernetes iac aws gcp
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society

Job Summary

  • Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society.
  • The Systems engineering team owns compute uptime and resilience at massive scale, building the clusters and automation that make frontier AI research possible.
  • Candidates must have deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms like Kubernetes and AWS/GCP, and be strong in at least one systems language.

Matching Summary

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society.

Salary

Base: £240,000 - £325,000 GBP; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 6+ years software engineering experience
  • Distributed systems and reliability knowledge
  • Cloud platforms Kubernetes IaC AWS GCP
  • Systems language proficiency Python Rust Go Java
  • End-to-end technical project leadership

Nice-to-have

  • Security and privacy best practice expertise
  • Machine learning infrastructure GPU TPU Trainium
  • Low level systems Linux kernel tuning eBPF
  • Experience with NCCL networking infrastructure
  • Strong communication in design docs presentations

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience
  • Minimum 6 years of software engineering experience
  • Proven track record leading technical projects end-to-end

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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