Engineering Manager, Scalable Agent Runtime Platform

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

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform group. You will oversee the compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents, ensuring friction-free productivity, secure execution, and scalable infrastructure. You will balance strategy with hands-on development in a fast-paced environment.

You will guide cross-team collaboration, shape security practices, and drive an on-call culture to sustain high reliability while advancing AI capabilities.

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.
• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale.
• Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work.
• Excellent communication skills and enjoy 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 what secure agent execution means at scale, partnering with security teams on sandboxing, isolation, and credential management.
• Build primitives that are composable and reusable across various agents.
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability across cloud providers.
• Collaborate cross-team, supporting internal teams bringing up their agents.

Skills

Large-scale platforms

Engineering management

Container orchestration

VM orchestration

Communication skills

Tools

Sandboxing

Cloud providers

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform group. You will oversee the compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents, ensuring friction-free productivity, secure execution, and scalable infrastructure. You will balance strategy with hands-on development in a fast-paced environment.

You will guide cross-team collaboration, shape security practices, and drive an on-call culture to sustain high reliability while advancing AI capabilities.