Engineering Manager, GRC Platform

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 364,500 - 445,500; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is looking for an Engineering Manager, GRC in San Francisco, to lead the development of automated workflows and data pipelines for risk and compliance systems. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the team and architecture around governance and compliance needs.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing technical teams and a deep understanding of systems integration. An annual salary of $405,000 is offered for this critical role.

Qualifications

• 12+ years total experience with 3-4+ years managing technical teams.
• Experience in designing automated workflows and data pipelines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills necessary for compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to establish foundational GRC processes.
• Create automated workflows for risk management and compliance.
• Design data pipelines to aggregate risk and compliance information.

Skills

Team leadership

Systems architecture

Data integration

Automated workflows

APIs and integration patterns

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

About The Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, GRC to join our GRC organization and build the technical foundation for how we scale our risk and compliance programs. In this role, you will lead the team that designs and implements automated workflows, data pipelines, and integrations that transform manual compliance processes into scalable engineering systems. This greenfield opportunity allows you to establish the team, architecture, and integrations that define how we approach governance, risk, and compliance at Anthropic. Your job will be to gather compliance information from dozens of systems—cloud infrastructure, identity providers, HR platforms, ticketing tools, code repositories—and design systems that normalize that data to make it actionable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that establishes foundational GRC processes and architecture. Design and build automated workflows for risk management and compliance, creating scalable systems that enable continuous monitoring as Anthropic grows.
• Build data pipelines that aggregate risk, control, and asset information from across our technology stack. This involves mapping disparate schemas, handling inconsistent data quality, and creating unified views of compliance posture through dashboards and reporting tools.
• Inform GRC platform strategy and implementation: in partnership with other programs, plan for and build tooling that meets our compliance requirements.
• Translate written policies and compliance requirements into policy‑as‑code—working with Engineering and Security teams to express requirements as enforceable rules, automated checks, and continuous validation rather than static documents.
• Establish feedback loops between policy and implementation: surface where technical controls diverge from written requirements, identify where policies need to evolve based on infrastructure realities, and ensure that compliance requirements are expressed in terms engineers can act on.
• Design and deploy agentic AI workflows that extend team capacity, using Claude to serve as a virtual GRC analyst to automate evidence analysis, monitor control effectiveness, draft audit responses, interpret policy documents, and handle other tasks that require reasoning over unstructured information.
• Design and maintain integrations connecting GRC tooling with cloud infrastructure, identity management systems, HRIS platforms, ticketing systems, version control, and CI/CD pipelines—working with engineers to implement integrations that enable automated evidence collection and continuous compliance validation.
• Build and lead an AI‑forward GRC engineering function as we scale: hiring team members, establishing practices, and defining the technical roadmap for governance and compliance automation at Anthropic.

Qualifications

• Have 12+ years of total experience and 3‑4+ years of experience managing technical individual contributors or systems‑focused teams, with a proven track record of building or scaling small teams (2‑5 people) in security, compliance, automation, or operations functions.
• Are a systems thinker first. You understand how complex environments work: how data flows between systems, where integration points exist, what breaks when systems don’t talk to each other. Your strength is designing the right architecture and environment for security monitoring, not necessarily implementing it yourself.
• Have 5+ years of experience designing automated workflows, data pipelines, or system integrations, whether through traditional development, low‑code platforms, GRC tools, or process automation. We care about your ability to solve integration problems more than your programming language proficiency.
• Have a relentless focus on data integration: you understand how to pull data from multiple sources, normalize it, join it meaningfully, and surface insights. You’re comfortable reasoning about messy, inconsistent data and designing systems that handle edge cases gracefully.
• Understand APIs and integration patterns: REST APIs, webhooks, authentication flows, polling vs. push architectures, and can evaluate systems based on how well they expose data and support automation.
• Can work independently with minimal guidance, taking ownership of complex problems from design through implementation while managing ambiguity inherent in early‑stage programs.
• Have strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail necessary for compliance work, balanced with pragmatism about risk‑based prioritization in fast‑paced environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and an understanding of how compliance‑relevant data can be extracted from their APIs and logging systems.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) and DevSecOps practices including CI/CD pipeline integration and policy‑as‑code implementations.

Strong Candidates May Have

• Experience designing or implementing AI‑powered automation, agentic workflows, or LLM‑based tooling in operational contexts.
• Experience with GRC platforms such as ServiceNow GRC, Vanta, Drata, OneTrust, RSA Archer, or similar tools including configuration, customization, and integration capabilities.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python or similar) for automation tasks, API interactions, and data transformation.
• Prior experience in high‑growth startup environments demonstrating ability to build scalable processes and adapt quickly to changing requirements and priorities.

Salary

Annual Salary: $405,000 - $405,000 USD