# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (Dev Environments) - Claude Code

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $405,000-$485,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our development environment end-to-end, focusing on speed, isolation, and validation. You will enhance the inner development loop for engineers building Claude, Anthropic's AI system.

## Responsibilities

- Own the local and hosted development environment, ensuring rapid setup and seamless operation.

- Drive down cold-start times for fresh environments and maintain performance as the codebase grows.

- Design and implement an environment isolation model that allows free experimentation without risking shared systems.

- Develop and maintain pre-push validation to catch issues locally, reducing CI failures.

- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to optimize repository and service topology.

- Lead technically across teams, gathering requirements and advocating for optimal solutions.

## Requirements

- Significant experience in software engineering, particularly in backend or developer infrastructure.

- Proficiency in Python.

- Hands-on experience with containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and pod operations.

- Prior experience owning developer environments or workflows in a multi-team setting.

- Daily use of AI coding assistants in your development workflow.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in backend or developer infrastructure engineering.

- Experience with Rust or Go.

- Track record of reducing cold-start times in complex stacks.

- Experience with environment isolation models or monorepo management.

- Familiarity with hermetic build systems like Bazel or Buck.

## Compensation

The annual salary range for this role is $405,000 - $485,000 USD.

## Benefits

Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space.

## Logistics

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time.

- Visa sponsorship available.

## About Anthropic

Anthropic aims to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems for safe and beneficial use.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- containers (Docker)
- Kubernetes
- developer infrastructure
- AI coding assistants

### Nice to have
- Rust
- Go
- Bazel
- Buck
- hermetic build systems
- environment isolation models
- monorepo management

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