Director, Corporate Network Engineering

Confidential; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 285,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

SF office space

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Corporate Network Engineer to lead and grow the corporate network engineering team, setting direction across edge, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, and telemetry. You will own reliability, network-as-code, and vendor management for a global office footprint.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise networking, strong leadership, and a proven track record of delivering secure, scalable network architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise campus and edge networks.
• 5+ years leading engineers, including 3+ years as a people manager.
• Architectural judgment from design to protocol behavior and failure modes.
• Secure-by-default design with clear trade-offs and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Corporate Network Engineering team—hiring, development, performance, planning, and prioritization
• Set technical direction with the team and own architecture standards across edge, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, out-of-band management, and telemetry; review designs and risky changes, and step in on the hard problems
• Own reliability and operations: monitoring, incident response and post-incident reviews, on-call and escalation model
• Move the fleet toward network-as-code: templated configuration with change control, staged rollouts, drift detection, and automation
• Partner with Security Engineering and Detection & Response on network authentication, segmentation, and network telemetry as a detection source
• Deliver networks for new offices and research facilities and upgrade existing sites with cross-team coordination
• Own vendor, carrier, and integrator relationships and the network hardware budget: evaluations, contracts, lead times, and multi-year refresh

Skills

Edge networking

Campus switching

Segmentation

Out-of-band management

Network automation

Telemetry

Physical infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Templating

Vendor APIs

Git

CI

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a Corporate Network Engineer to lead and grow the corporate network engineering team, setting direction across edge, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, and telemetry. You will own reliability, network-as-code, and vendor management for a global office footprint.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise networking, strong leadership, and a proven track record of delivering secure, scalable network architectures.