PMs for Hire

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (Dev Environments) - Claude Code

San Francisco, CA · Staff+

H1B sponsorship available$405k-$485kDetected 27 days ago

PythonGoRustGitDockerKubernetesRESTNLPA/B TestingLogisticsResearchCommunication

About the role

Every minute an Anthropic engineer or researcher spends waiting on a container to boot, a dependency to resolve, or CI to surface a failure that could have been caught locally is a minute not spent on frontier AI safety.
This team works the way it expects the rest of Anthropic to work: with Claude in the loop.

Own the local and hosted development environment end to end - container lifecycle, dependency provisioning, hot reload, and the single command an engineer runs to start working
Drive down cold-start time for fresh development environments and keep it low as the codebase grows
Design and implement the environment isolation model (sandboxes, ephemeral environments, namespace separation) that lets engineers experiment freely without risk to shared systems
Build and maintain the pre-push validation surface so failures are caught on the engineer's machine, not in CI
Partner with platform, delivery infrastructure, and tooling teams to shape the repository and service topology that best supports a fast inner loop
Act as a technical lead across team boundaries - gathering requirements, building consensus, and advocating for the approach that's right for engineers across Anthropic
Prior ownership of a developer environment, build system, or paved-path workflow used by a multi-team engineering organization, with demonstrable adoption
Experience working across team boundaries to deliver infrastructure that other engineers depend on

Significant professional software engineering experience in backend or developer infrastructure domains
Proficiency in Python
Hands-on experience with containers (Docker or equivalent), Kubernetes, and pod-level operations
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

7+ years of backend or developer infrastructure engineering experience
Experience with Rust or Go
A track record of reducing cold-start or boot time on a complex multi-service stack to under a minute, with before/after measurements
Experience leading (or making the case against) a monorepo extraction, repo split, or comparable scope-boundary migration from the developer-tooling side
Rebuilding the dev container image pipeline so a new engineer goes from git clone to a running environment in under 60 seconds
Shipping a pre-push hook framework that runs the relevant subset of tests and lints locally, cutting CI failure rate for first-attempt pushes
Representative projects

$405,000 - $485,000 USD
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Daily, hands-on use of AI coding assistants as part of your own development workflow

However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.
But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We do sponsor visas!

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