Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

Job Overview

As an Engineering Manager on the Agent Runtime Platform team at Anthropic, you will be responsible for ensuring your team identifies and removes friction and blockers to productivity, experiments at the frontier, and builds security and quality into agents.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap, translating goals into concrete execution.
• Manage day-to-day execution of the team's work.
• Prioritize the team's work and manage projects in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling.
• Define what secure agent execution means at scale, partnering with security teams on sandboxing, isolation, and credential management.
• Build primitives that are composable and reusable across various agents.
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability: capacity planning across cloud providers, right-sizing, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate cross-team, supporting internal teams bringing up their agents.

Requirements

• Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems.
• Have 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly in building platforms or agents at scale.
• Are deeply interested in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and agents, and are committed to ensuring their safe deployment.
• Have experience with container or VM orchestration at scale.
• Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work.
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners.

Nice to Have

• Engineering management experience on top of a strong IC track record.
• Experience with harness engineering.
• Experience with building security-sensitive infrastructure: sandboxing, workload isolation, credential management, or access control.
• Experience with capacity planning and utilization across multiple cloud providers.
• Experience working with researchers, engineers and other functional roles.

Logistics

• Annual Salary: $1-$2 USD
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.

Benefits

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