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Staff Engineer, Datacenter Server Lifecycle

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-29 → 2026-10-07

Core

Own the end-to-end operational journey of datacenter servers from provisioning to decommissioning, with a focus on automation, trusted compute standards, and fleet health tracking.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Datacenter Server Lifecycle

Builds

Automated server lifecycle processes, tooling for fleet health tracking, and trusted compute standards for AI hardware.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Datacenter Operations / Hardware Security

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Server hardware lifecycle management, automation development, programming (Python/Rust/Go/Java), cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, IAC, AWS, GCP), hardware troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

GPU/AI accelerator hardware experience, provisioning tooling (coreboot/LinuxBoot/u-root), fleet management platform development, OS distribution at scale, capacity planning, trusted compute concepts (TPM, attestation, secure boot)

Technologies

Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, GCP, Python, Rust, Go, Java, coreboot, LinuxBoot, u-root, NVIDIA A100/H100, AMD MI300, Google TPUs, AWS Trainium

Responsibilities

Lead build-out of automation for tens of thousands of servers; Define and own end-to-end server lifecycle strategy; Partner with Infrastructure Security to enforce trusted compute standards; Work with Networking team for end-to-end connectivity; Build and maintain tooling to track machine health and configuration. (via careerplan.io/jobs/5139038008-staff-engineer-datacenter-server-lifecycle-at-anthropic)

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope