Principal Engineer Capacity/Compute

The role

You will build production systems to manage and maximize the utilization of Anthropic's large infrastructure fleet. This includes developing data pipelines, observability tooling, and planning platforms for compute resources.

What you will do

• Build the planning and allocation stack for capacity and scheduling
• Drive efficiency programs including stranding and rightsizing and unused capacity recovery
• Own attribution and forecasting by reconciling billing and telemetry
• Build the data platform for ingesting occupancy, utilization, and cost into BigQuery
• Operate Kubernetes-native systems at scale
• Gather requirements and design for consumers ranging from research engineers to a CFO

Required qualifications

• A strong track record building and operating production systems
• Python and SQL at production quality
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure)
• Experience with observability tooling stack, including Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana
• Ability to gather your own requirements and work across organizational boundaries
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Nice to have

• Experience with capacity planning, resource management, or cost attribution systems at a hyperscaler or in a large-scale machine learning environment
• Scheduling and packing efficiency experience, or profiling-driven optimization of large distributed workloads
• Multi-cloud data ingestion experience
• Total cost of ownership and forecasting experience
• Accelerator infrastructure familiarity
• Experience building internal data products with self-service access, schema contracts, API serving, documentation, and discoverability
• Storage efficiency, retention, and lifecycle program experience at exabyte scale

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas!

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.