# Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$485,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Description

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.

The Safeguards ML Infra team designs, builds, and operates the production infrastructure that powers Claude's safety systems. We own the critical backend services that ensure safety on the token generation path, and we own the operational work of getting those systems safely into production: standing up safeguards for every new model launch, and deploying new safety classifiers as they ship.

### Responsibilities

- Launch captain model releases: stand up, configure, and verify safeguards for every new model, and serve as the safeguards point of contact in the launch room during release windows.

- Own the off-cycle deployment of new safety classifiers as they ship from research , canarying rollouts, running post-deploy validations, and investigating discrepancies when something looks wrong.

- Verify that the right safeguards are provably live on the right models across every deployment platform (1P, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, etc.), and detect and eliminate configuration drift between them.

- Automate yourself out of last quarter's work: turn launch runbooks into tooling, hand-built checks into continuous validation, and one-off deploys into a repeatable pipeline.

- Plan to use Claude aggressively to do this! And be a trailblazer that paves the path for safe agentic operations of safety-critical systems.

- Build and maintain a safeguards registry with full provenance , what is running in production, on which model, on which platform, and when and by whom it was deployed.

- Participate in on-call and operational-duty rotations covering service incidents, model provisioning, and time-sensitive research and safety launches.

### Requirements

- Have owned production change management at scale , deploy pipelines, config management systems, canary analysis , and have strong opinions about what "verified" means.

- Have run high-stakes releases: served as a launch captain, incident commander, or release owner for systems where a bad deploy has real consequences, and are energized rather than drained by being in the critical path.

- Have meaningful on-call experience for production systems, including incident response and postmortem-driven improvements , and a track record of turning (and fixing!) postmortem action items into process and tooling changes.

- Have a desire to close the gap where nobody has yet raised their hand, even if it requires manually hand-holding processes until automation and tooling can be built.

- Have hands-on experience deploying and operating on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) at scale.

- Are proficient in Python; experience with Rust is a plus but not required.

### Nice to Have

- 8+ years of industry software engineering or site reliability engineering experience.

- A demonstrated history of reducing operational toil through automation, including transitioning teams from manual deployment processes to self-serve pipelines.

- Experience running launch or production-readiness review processes across multiple teams.

- Familiarity with LLM inference systems and the operational characteristics of transformer-based models.

### Logistics

- Annual Salary: $320,000-$485,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Rust
- AWS
- GCP
- production change management
- config management systems
- canary analysis

### Nice to have
- LLM inference systems
- transformer-based models
- automation
- self-serve pipelines

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