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Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$405k - $485kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for the Agent Runtime Platform that provisions and runs compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents. Focus on removing friction, enabling productivity, building secure, scalable, and reusable runtimes and tooling, and partnering with security and cross-team stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

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

Qualifications

  • 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems
  • 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly in building platforms or agents at scale
  • Deep interest in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and agents, and committed to safe deployment
  • Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
  • Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
  • Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipPlatform engineering
Nice to have:Security and sandboxing

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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