Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (CI/CD) - Claude Code
San Francisco, CA
Posted 16d ago
About the job
Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to be safe and beneficial for users and society. The Developer Productivity team owns the entire path from pull request to production, including review automation, CI, the merge queue, and the deploy pipeline. This role focuses on integrating these components into a fast, predictable system that scales with the company's growth. You will be responsible for making "time from push to healthy in production" a reliable metric, shaping CI and repository topology for optimal velocity, and building AI-assisted review processes. This is a tech-lead-scope individual contributor role with significant cross-team influence, representing Developer Productivity in org-wide pipeline decisions and setting standards for other teams. The team heavily utilizes Claude in its development workflows, with agentic coding being both a method of work and a component of what you will build.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end build, test, merge, and deploy pipeline, defining what runs on each PR, what auto-approves, what gates merges, and how changes reach production.
- Drive and defend "time from push to healthy in prod" as a core engineering metric.
- Design and tune AI-assisted code review to scale confidence-to-land with PR volume.
- Build the deploy and release path, including canary, progressive rollout, health checks, and automated rollback, in partnership with platform teams.
- Improve test reliability by quarantining, root-causing, and retiring intermittent failures.
- Shape CI and repository topology (build graph, test targeting, scope boundaries) to align with company shipping practices.
- Partner with platform, delivery infrastructure, and security teams, and represent Developer Productivity in cross-organizational pipeline decisions.
- Design processes for reliable team operation, including postmortem review, incident response, and on-call procedures.
Requirements
- Significant backend or developer-infrastructure engineering experience with high-leverage CI/CD, merge queue, or land pipeline ownership at scale.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one statically-typed systems language (e.g., Go or Rust).
- Experience operating CI/CD or release systems through production incidents, including writing postmortems and driving remediations.
- Demonstrated ability to build consensus across team boundaries with platform, security, and product engineering stakeholders.
- Comfort using AI coding tools daily and having informed opinions on their leverage.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.