Engineering Manager – Agent Runtime Platform

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Runtime Platform, focusing on scalable infrastructure and secure agent execution. You will drive technical strategy, manage delivery, and partner with security and research teams in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll guide a team of engineers and work across disciplines to ensure reliability, efficiency, and safety in agent-powered workloads.

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.
• “Safe deployment” focus in AI systems and agents.
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale.
• Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work.
• Excellent communication skills and supporting internal partners.

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 dynamic environment.
• Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling.
• Define secure agent execution standards, partnering with security on sandboxing and credential management.
• Build reusable primitives across agents and scale infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross-team to support internal teams bringing up agents.

Skills

Distributed systems

Engineering management

Security-sensitive infra

Container orchestration

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Container/Vm orchestration

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Runtime Platform, focusing on scalable infrastructure and secure agent execution. You will drive technical strategy, manage delivery, and partner with security and research teams in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll guide a team of engineers and work across disciplines to ensure reliability, efficiency, and safety in agent-powered workloads.