Senior Manager, Enterprise Network & Edge Engineering

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 285,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Network Engineering in San Francisco to shape campus, edge, and enterprise networking. You will own architecture standards and lead a small team to deliver reliable, secure networking as code across offices.

Reporting to the head of IT Engineering, you will collaborate with Buildouts, Security, Workplace, Real Estate, and partners; hire and coach engineers; manage budgets; and drive vendor decisions to ensure uptime and security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise campus/edge networks across multiple sites.
• 5+ years leading engineers, including people management.
• Strong architectural judgment from design to protocol behavior and failure modes.
• Secure-by-default mindset with clear trade‑offs explained to stakeholders.
• Experience with network automation and telemetry pipelines.
• Experience managing vendor evaluations and multi-site builds.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Corporate Network Engineering team: hiring, development, performance, planning, prioritization.
• Set technical direction across edge, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, and telemetry; review designs and critical changes.
• Own reliability and operations: monitoring, incident response, on-call model, change safety.
• Move the fleet toward network-as-code with templated configurations and automated rollouts.
• Collaborate with Security, Buildouts, Real Estate, Workplace, and external partners on site builds and migration.
• Manage vendor and budget relations for network hardware and services.

Skills

Enterprise edge

Campus switching

Segmentation & access control

Out-of-band management

Network automation

Network observability

Physical infra for buildouts

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Network Engineering in San Francisco to shape campus, edge, and enterprise networking. You will own architecture standards and lead a small team to deliver reliable, secure networking as code across offices.

Reporting to the head of IT Engineering, you will collaborate with Buildouts, Security, Workplace, Real Estate, and partners; hire and coach engineers; manage budgets; and drive vendor decisions to ensure uptime and security.