Tech Lead Manager

Who you are

• 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
• 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
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed

What the job involves

• The Agent Runtime Platform provisions and runs the compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents: secure, credential-managed environments where agents do real engineering and knowledge work at scale
• As an Engineering Manager on these teams, you will be responsible for ensuring you and your team are identifying and removing friction and blockers to productivity, experimenting at the frontier, and building security and quality into agents
• You also will help bring clarity, focus, and context to your teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• 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

The application process

• Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office