Engineering Manager - Safe Deployment & Feature Flags

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team building the continuous‑deployment and feature‑flagging platforms. You will own planning, delivery, and roadmap for safe deployments across services, partnering with product, inference, security, and infrastructure to raise deployment safety as a standard practice.

You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and help scale the platform as adoption grows across the company, while maintaining an inclusive, high‑performing

Qualifications

• Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers.
• Hands-on software engineering background before moving into management.
• Experience building or operating backend, distributed, or infrastructure systems in production.
• Working knowledge of deployment and cloud-native tooling (CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, IaC).
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building Anthropic's continuous‑deployment, configuration, and feature‑flagging platforms, owning planning, execution, and delivery against key milestones
• Set technical direction for the safe deployment of code, infrastructure, and configuration across Anthropic's services
• Partner with product, inference, security, and infrastructure teams to migrate services onto the paved path and make safe deployment the default
• Drive the roadmap for progressive rollouts, health-check automation, first-class configuration deployment, and expansion to new deployment surfaces
• Define and track the metrics that measure deployment safety and speed and hold the team accountable to them
• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous, fast‑moving environment where the platform is still being built out
• 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 leadership

Hands-on engineering

Backend/distributed systems

CI/CD/Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team building the continuous‑deployment and feature‑flagging platforms. You will own planning, delivery, and roadmap for safe deployments across services, partnering with product, inference, security, and infrastructure to raise deployment safety as a standard practice.

You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and help scale the platform as adoption grows across the company, while maintaining an inclusive, high‑performing