Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration at Anthropic

on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship

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Responsibilities:
- Design and build highly reliable, scalable CI infrastructure that supports thousands of daily builds across multiple cloud providers
- Develop intelligent test-selection systems to reduce CI time while maintaining code quality
- Implement incident-response automation, including cluster load-shedding, automatic recovery, and runbooks
- Improve test infrastructure reliability with flake detection, quarantine systems, and test state management
- Own CI tooling, merge-queue and branching strategies, observability, and developer-facing CLI/tools
- Partner with engineering teams to unblock deployments and increase developer productivity

Requirements:
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale CI/CD systems
- Deep hands-on experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Strong background in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale across cloud providers
- Proven skills in automation, observability, and incident response for production systems
- Experience with test infrastructure, intelligent test selection, flake management, and merge-queue workflows
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; experience supporting internal engineering teams