Staff/Sr Software Engineer, Compute Capacity at Anthropic

Anthropic

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY·1d ago

SeniorFull-timePythonRustAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformGitAIAPI

Salary Range

$132,600 - $179,400 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for an Accelerator Capacity Engineer to join our team at Anthropic. This role focuses on building and operating data pipelines, observability infrastructure, and internal tooling to maximize utilization of our accelerator fleet across multiple cloud providers.

Key Responsibilities

→Build and operate data pipelines that ingest accelerator occupancy, utilization, and cost data from multiple cloud providers into BigQuery
→Develop and maintain observability infrastructure including Prometheus recording rules, Grafana dashboards, and alerting systems
→Instrument and analyze compute efficiency metrics across training, inference, and eval workloads
→Build internal tooling and platforms for capacity planning, workload attribution, and cluster debugging
→Operate Kubernetes-native systems at scale
→Normalize and reconcile data across heterogeneous sources
→Collaborate across organizational boundaries with research engineering, infrastructure, inference, and finance teams

Requirements

✓5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record building and operating production systems
✓Kubernetes fluency at operational depth
✓Data pipeline engineering experience with data warehouses (BigQuery preferred)
✓Observability tooling experience with Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana
✓Python and SQL at production quality
✓Familiarity with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
✓High autonomy and strong cross-team communication