Platform Engineering Lead, Agent Runtime

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform to lead the compute and runtimes behind internal agents. You will drive the technical strategy, oversee delivery, and ensure security and quality at scale in a fast-paced environment.

You will guide teams across security, reliability, and cross-functional collaboration while staying hands-on with platform development and capacity planning for cloud environments. The role blends leadership with engineering execution.

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.
• Deep interest in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and responsible deployment.
• 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 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.
• Build primitives that are composable and reusable across various agents.
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability: capacity planning across cloud providers.
• Collaborate cross-team, supporting internal teams bringing up their agents.

Skills

Distributed systems

Engineering leadership

Security & sandboxing

Cloud capacity planning

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform to lead the compute and runtimes behind internal agents. You will drive the technical strategy, oversee delivery, and ensure security and quality at scale in a fast-paced environment.

You will guide teams across security, reliability, and cross-functional collaboration while staying hands-on with platform development and capacity planning for cloud environments. The role blends leadership with engineering execution.