# Principal Engineer Capacity/Compute at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-18
- Apply by: 2026-12-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5456039008?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-principal-engineer-capacity-compute/

## About the role

Anthropic manages one of the largest and fastest-growing infrastructure fleets in the industry — spanning multiple accelerator families, cpu families and clouds. The Capacity Engineering team is responsible for making sure all our infrastructure resources are accounted for, well-utilized, and efficiently allocated. We own the data, tooling, and operational systems that let Anthropic plan, measure, and maximize utilization across first-party and third-party compute. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A strong track record building and operating production systems. This is a hands-on engineering role with a devops flavor
- Python and SQL at production quality. Most pipeline code is Python, the presentation layer is BigQuery SQL, including table-valued functions and views. Both need to be idiomatic, well-tested, and maintainable
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure) and its operations
- Experience with observability tooling stack, including Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana, including writing recording rules and building monitoring that engineering teams rely on
- Ability to gather your own requirements and work across organizational boundaries in an ambiguous environment with limited direction

Tags: Software Engineering - Infrastructure

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