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.