Engineering · Posted 7 mo ago
Staff Engineer, Datacenter Server Lifecycle
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
- Hiring company
- Anthropic
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Pay (as posted)
- $320k–$405k / yr
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Travel
- Regional travel
What they’re looking for
- 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 and large scale cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, 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.
- 8+ years of experience in datacenter infrastructure management, or a closely related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with GPU or AI accelerator hardware (e.g., NVIDIA A100/H100, Google TPUs, or AWS Trainium) and an understanding of their operational demands.
- Familiarity with modern provisioning and OS tooling such as LinuxBoot and NixOS
- Experience building or contributing to datacenter automation or fleet management platforms.
- Experience building and deploying server operating system distributions across large server fleets.
- 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 such as secure boot, TPM, hardware attestation, and firmware verification — or a strong desire to develop deep expertise in this area.
Skills mentioned
Rack & cabinet deployment · Component & hardware replacement · Asset inventory & auditing · Decommissioning & sanitization · Network switch configuration · Scheduling
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