Engineering Manager, Connectivity - London

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to join our Connectivity team in London. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers building the connectivity infrastructure that powers tool use across Anthropic's product suite, including the MCP proxy, OAuth, and token management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building the connectivity infrastructure that powers tool use across Anthropic's product suite, from the MCP proxy to OAuth and token management
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching top technical talent, and maintain a high-performing team
• Coach, mentor, and provide career development guidance to your direct reports, helping them set and achieve their professional goals
• Partner with Connectivity engineering leadership in San Francisco, along with product, security, and platform teams, to define the team's roadmap and create clarity for the team in an ambiguous and evolving environment
• Drive cross-team and cross-org alignment to ship work that spans claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API, working effectively with teams primarily based in the US
• Establish and drive adoption of engineering best practices within your team, including the operational rigor (on-call, incident response, postmortems) required for infrastructure that other teams and external partners depend on
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management team

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• A technical background in backend or platform engineering, with the depth to guide architectural decisions and engage credibly in technical discussions
• Experience operating production distributed systems, with an understanding of what reliability, observability, and incident response require at scale
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build consensus across teams and time zones
• Demonstrated success building a culture of belonging, and of product and engineering excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager
• Familiarity with MCP or experience contributing to open standards or open source ecosystems
• Experience leading teams that collaborate closely with distributed or cross-timezone partner teams
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth, token management, or identity systems
• Experience building or operating API gateways, proxies, or multi-tenant platforms
• Experience building for enterprise customers, including admin controls, governance, and compliance requirements
• Experience working on AI/ML products or agentic systems

Logistics

• Annual Salary: £1-£1 GBP
• 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
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.