Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

Tech Stack

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Responsibilities

• Own, operate, and extend the Kubernetes scheduler for Anthropic's accelerator fleets, including custom scheduling plugins and policies for gang scheduling, topology awareness, and preemption.
• Scale the Kubernetes control plane (apiserver, etcd, controller-manager) to support clusters far beyond typical limits.
• Design, build, and operate core cluster services such as service discovery that every workload in the fleet depends on.
• Build and maintain custom controllers, operators, and CRDs.
• Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and design processes (postmortems, runbooks, SLOs) that help the team avoid repeating failures.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• Equity
• Flexible Hours
• Parental Leave
• Visa Sponsorship

Culture

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