Tech Lead Manager (Agent Runtime Platform)

Anthropic; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and Vision insurance

Fertility benefits

Paid parental leave

Flexible paid time off

Mental health support

Equity packages

Equity donation matching

Retirement plans

Life and income protection

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Education stipend

Home office stipend

Relocation support

Daily meals in office

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform. You will lead teams delivering secure, scalable environments where agents perform complex tasks at scale.

You’ll own strategy, drive execution, and keep hands-on involvement in building runtime platforms and tooling. The role emphasizes blocking-friction removal, cross-team collaboration, and maintaining high security standards while growing platform capabilities to support agents across deployments.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment.
• 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems.
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale.
• Experience building security-sensitive infrastructure: sandboxing, workload isolation, credential management, or access control.
• Experience with capacity planning and utilization across multiple cloud providers.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for agent runtime platforms.
• Manage day-to-day execution of the team’s work in a fast-paced environment.
• Prioritize the team’s work and manage projects with focus on productivity.
• Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling.
• Define secure agent execution standards in collaboration with security teams.
• Build reusable primitives across agents.
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability across cloud providers.
• Collaborate cross-team to support internal teams bringing up their agents.

Skills

People management

Platform engineering

Agent/runtime platforms

Communication skills

Container orchestration

VM orchestration

Security-sensitive infrastructure

Cloud capacity planning

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

• 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

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

Have 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly in building platforms or agents at scaleHave 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systemsAre obsessed with productivity and transforming how we workHave excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partnersHave experience with container or VM orchestration at scaleAre deeply interested in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and agents, and are committed to ensuring their safe deploymentWe 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 listedExperience with harness engineeringExperience working with researchers, engineers and other functional rolesExperience with building security-sensitive infrastructure: sandboxing, workload isolation, credential management, or access controlExperience with capacity planning and utilization across multiple cloud providersEngineering management experience on top of a strong IC track record