Engineering Manager, Anthropic

Product Infrastructure

$320-405k

Kubernetes
Kafka
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Anthropic

AI safety and research company

Open for applications

Anthropic

AI safety and research company

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Open for applications

$320-405k

Kubernetes
Kafka
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Role

Who you are

  • Have 8+ years of experience working in infrastructure and 3+ years of experience managing an infrastructure team
  • Have a strong technical background in storage systems, queuing infra, service management or general infrastructure
  • Embody the startup approach of moving fast and iterating - you can help your team find the right balance between speed and polish for each situation
  • Experience recruiting, scaling, and retaining engineering talent in a high-growth environment
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills, with ability to work effectively across functions

Desirable

  • Be obsessed with distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
  • Have experience scaling databases and service infrastructure as a service to broader organizations
  • Possess deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Kafka
  • Have experience building AI applications with LLMs

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead our product infrastructure team
  • This team supports the core infrastructure powering the product engineering org
  • Some examples of what this team owns and works on are our relational datastores, our k8s infrastructure for deploying our products, our RAG platform and more
  • As you might imagine we’re scaling rapidly, both in terms of the amount of different infra that we support, as well as the scale being put on our infra
  • We’re looking for a manager with a background in infrastructure to help chart what the future of product infrastructure at Anthropic looks like
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers focused on storage, container infrastructure, queuing and more
  • Help scale our relational datastores to serve an ever growing number of product use cases
  • Architect and build scalable service infrastructure and tooling that allows product developers to launch new services effortlessly
  • Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to understand their needs and build infrastructure that accelerates their feature delivery
  • Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful
  • Work with your team to set the strategic vision for product infrastructure at Anthropic

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Top investors

190% employee growth in 12 months

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Company

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
  • Generous subsidy for OneMedical
  • 21 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • $500/month flexible wellness stipend
  • Commuter coverage
  • Annual education stipend
  • A home office improvement stipend when you first join
  • Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area

Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)

Mar 2025

$3.5bn

SERIES E

Jan 2025

$1bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $16.3bn

Our take

Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.

While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.

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