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Staff+ Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

AnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WASoftware Engineering - Infrastructure
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Job type
Full-time
Posted
14 Jul 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Role Overview

The Staff+ Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering role at Anthropic involves building and operating the production systems that manage one of the largest infrastructure fleets in the industry. Based in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, this role suits a hands-on engineer who thrives in a high-autonomy and high-ambiguity environment.

Key Responsibilities

Build the planning and allocation stack, including cross-region and cross-provider placement, guardrails, queueing, and occupancy KPIs.
Drive efficiency programs focused on stranding and rightsizing, unused capacity recovery, and job-level utilization across training, inference, and eval.
Own attribution and forecasting by reconciling billing across ten-plus providers against telemetry and internal systems, and translating demand signals into a compute plan.
Build the underlying data platform using BigQuery to ingest occupancy, utilization, and cost from a diversifying fleet with real ownership of completeness and latency.
Operate Kubernetes-native systems at scale, managing collection agents, workload labeling, and scheduling behaviors.
Treat data output as a product by defining schema contracts and designing self-service access for consumers ranging from research engineers to the CFO.

Requirements

A strong track record of building and operating production systems with a devops flavor.
Production-quality Python and SQL skills, including BigQuery SQL table-valued functions and views.
Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
Experience with observability tooling stacks including Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana.
Ability to gather own requirements and work across organizational boundaries in an ambiguous environment.
Minimum education of a Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to Have

Experience with capacity planning, resource management, or cost attribution systems at a hyperscaler or large-scale machine learning environment.
Scheduling and packing efficiency experience or profiling-driven optimization of large distributed workloads.
Multi-cloud data ingestion experience, including normalizing billing exports, reservation APIs, and vendor telemetry.
Total cost of ownership and forecasting experience.
Accelerator infrastructure familiarity, such as GPU metrics (DCGM), TPU utilization, or Trainium power metrics.
Experience building internal data products with self-service access, API serving, and documentation.
Storage efficiency, retention, and lifecycle program experience at exabyte scale.

Skills and Tools

Python
SQL
BigQuery
Kubernetes
Prometheus
PromQL
Grafana
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Microsoft Azure

Salary and Benefits

Annual Salary: $320,000 to $485,000 USD
Competitive compensation and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Collaborative office space
Visa sponsorship available

About the Company

Anthropic focuses on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that remain safe and beneficial for users and society. The organization functions as a single cohesive team tackling large-scale research efforts through empirical science. Operating as a public benefit corporation, Anthropic brings together researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders to advance safe artificial intelligence.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please visit the official Anthropic careers page to submit your application.

Skills and tech stack

PythonSQLAzureKubernetes

Questions candidates ask

What is the salary range for the Staff+ Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering role?

The annual base salary ranges from $320,000 to $485,000 USD.

Where is the position located?

The role is available in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, with a location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time.

What technical skills are required?

Candidates must have production-quality Python and SQL skills, experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and expertise with observability tooling such as Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana.

Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship?

Yes, Anthropic sponsors visas and works with an immigration lawyer to assist candidates who receive an offer.

What educational background is required?

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field of study is required.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Anthropic careers page.

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