# Staff Engineer, Datacenter Server Lifecycle

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Staff Engineer on the Datacenter Server Lifecycle team at Anthropic, you will own the end-to-end operational journey of every machine in our facility. This role involves defining processes, tooling, and operational standards for running and retiring hardware at scale, with a focus on security and trusted compute standards.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead the build-out of automation to support datacenters containing tens of thousands of servers.

- Define and own the end-to-end server lifecycle strategy, from provisioning and deployment through operation, maintenance, refresh, and decommissioning.

- Partner with Infrastructure Security to design and enforce trusted compute standards across the server lifecycle.

- Work with the Networking team to ensure end-to-end connectivity across all sites.

- Build and maintain tooling to track machine health, configuration, and operational status across the full datacenter fleet.

## Requirements

- Hands-on experience with server hardware, including rack deployment, cabling, troubleshooting, and understanding failure modes at scale.

- End-to-end understanding of hardware lifecycle management: asset tracking, provisioning workflows, maintenance scheduling, and decommissioning practices.

- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, or Java).

- Working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP.

- Ability to communicate clearly and build consensus with a wide range of stakeholders.

- Comfort navigating ambiguity and making progress on complex, cross-functional problems.

- Willingness to travel occasionally to datacenter sites across North America.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in datacenter operations, hardware infrastructure management, or a closely related discipline.

- Hands-on experience with GPU or AI accelerator hardware and an understanding of their operational demands.

- Familiarity with modern provisioning tooling such as coreboot, LinuxBoot, or u-root.

- Experience building or contributing to datacenter automation or fleet management platforms.

- Experience building and deploying server operating system distributions across thousands of hosts.

- Background in large-scale capacity planning and hardware refresh strategy, ideally at a hyperscaler or large cloud provider.

- Experience with trusted compute and hardware security concepts.

## Compensation

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 USD.

## 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.

- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa if offered the role.

## Skills

### Required
- server hardware
- hardware lifecycle management
- programming languages (Python, Rust, Go, Java)
- cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, GCP)
- communication and stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- GPU or AI accelerator hardware
- modern provisioning tooling (coreboot, LinuxBoot, u-root)
- datacenter automation or fleet management platforms
- server operating system distributions
- large-scale capacity planning and hardware refresh strategy
- trusted compute and hardware security concepts

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