Engineering Manager, Secure Agent Runtime Platform

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform to lead the technical strategy, roadmap, and cross-functional delivery. You will stay hands-on while guiding teams to build secure, scalable agent runtimes and tooling in a fast-paced environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform reliability, and collaborate with security teams across cloud providers. Hybrid policy requires 25% in-office presence with visa sponsorship support for compatible candidates.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems.
• 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, building platforms or agents at scale.
• Interest in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and safe deployment.
• Experience with container orchestration at scale.
• Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to support 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 highly dynamic, fast-paced 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: capacity planning across cloud providers, right-sizing, and operational excellence
• Collaborate cross-team, supporting internal teams bringing up their agents

Skills

Platform engineering

Management experience

AI safety focus

Container orchestration

Productivity mindset

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform to lead the technical strategy, roadmap, and cross-functional delivery. You will stay hands-on while guiding teams to build secure, scalable agent runtimes and tooling in a fast-paced environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform reliability, and collaborate with security teams across cloud providers. Hybrid policy requires 25% in-office presence with visa sponsorship support for compatible candidates.