Engineering Manager (Connectivity)

Anthropic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave: 22 weeks

Flexible time off

Relocation support

Educational stipend

Home office stipend

Commuter benefits

Mental health support

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an experienced engineering leader to run a Connectivity engineering team in London. You will partner with teams in San Francisco to set a shared direction and deliver across sites, focusing on reliability, admin controls, and scalable token management for enterprise use.

You’ll hire and coach engineers, drive a culture of belonging, and align roadmaps with product, security, and platform teams to ship features across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills enabling consensus across teams and time zones.
• Experience operating production distributed systems with reliability, observability, and incident response at scale.
• Demonstrated success building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence.
• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Technical background in backend/platform engineering to guide architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Connectivity engineers in London and set direction across San Francisco.
• Oversee reliability and enterprise trust initiatives, including token management and admin controls.
• Develop connectivity infrastructure powering tool use across Anthropic’s product suite.
• Hire, coach, and provide career development guidance to direct reports.
• Collaborate with SF leadership and product/security teams to define roadmaps.
• Drive cross-team alignment to ship work across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and API.
• Establish engineering best practices, including on-call, incident response, and postmortems.

Skills

Communication

Distributed systems

Engineering management

OAuth

API gateways

Multi-tenant platforms

Observability

Incident response

Leadership

Back-end engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MCP

API gateways

Open standards/open source

Job description

Responsibilities

• We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead a team of Connectivity engineers based in London. The Connectivity team spans San Francisco and London, and you’ll work closely with engineering leadership and partner teams in San Francisco to set direction and deliver together across both sites
• You’ll lead a team working on problems where reliability and enterprise trust are the bar: token refresh at scale, admin controls that let IT govern what agents can do, and proxy infrastructure that stays up when partner servers don’t
• 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

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

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build consensus across teams and time zones
• Experience operating production distributed systems, with an understanding of what reliability, observability, and incident response require at scale
• Demonstrated success building a culture of belonging, and of product and engineering excellence
• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• Technical background in backend or platform engineering, with the depth to guide architectural decisions and engage credibly in technical discussions
• 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
• Experience building or operating API gateways, proxies, or multi‑tenant platforms
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth, token management, or identity systems
• Experience building for enterprise customers, including admin controls, governance, and compliance requirements
• Experience working on AI/ML products or agentic systems
• Required field of study: a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

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. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you’re interested in this work