Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Scheduler & Fleet

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Scheduler team, responsible for the scheduling layer across our Kubernetes fleet and the tooling researchers rely on to launch and manage jobs.

You will guide the roadmap for scheduling, improve fleet utilization, and ensure fast, explainable decisions while collaborating with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to maximize compute efficiency and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and growing a software engineering team.
• Hands-on software engineering background prior to moving into management.
• Experience building large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems in production.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cluster scheduling concepts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building Anthropic's scheduling platform, job-launch tooling, and fleet-efficiency systems, owning planning, execution, and delivery against key milestones
• Set technical direction for scheduling, placement, queueing, and quota across Anthropic's compute fleet
• Partner with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to bring workloads onto the paved path and make efficient scheduling decisions
• Drive the roadmap for scheduler capabilities, fleet utilization, and the developer experience of launching and managing jobs
• Define and track the metrics that measure fleet efficiency and scheduling quality and hold the team accountable to them
• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment where demand for compute routinely exceeds supply
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring, coaching, and career development, and sustain a high-performing, healthy team
• Represent the team across the engineering organization and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management group

Skills

Team management

Hands-on coding

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Scheduler team, responsible for the scheduling layer across our Kubernetes fleet and the tooling researchers rely on to launch and manage jobs.

You will guide the roadmap for scheduling, improve fleet utilization, and ensure fast, explainable decisions while collaborating with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to maximize compute efficiency and developer experience.