# Manager, Corporate Network Engineering

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $285k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Enterprise Networking, Firewalls, Routing, Campus Switching, Wireless Networking, 802.1X, Network Segmentation, Network Automation, Python, Vendor Apis, Source Control, Ci, Network Telemetry, Rf Design, Structured Cabling
**Posted:** 2026-08-15

> Leads a small team responsible for the architecture, reliability, security, automation, and delivery of Anthropic’s global corporate campus and edge networks. The role requires 10+ years of enterprise networking experience, people management, and deep expertise in network operations and infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Corporate Network Engineering team, including hiring, development, performance, planning, and prioritization.
- Set technical direction and own architecture standards across edge networking, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, out-of-band management, and telemetry.
- Review designs and risky changes, and resolve complex technical problems.
- Own reliability and operations, including actionable monitoring, incident response, post-incident reviews, sustainable on-call and escalation models, change safety, and lifecycle currency.
- Move the fleet toward network-as-code through templated configuration, change control, staged rollouts, drift detection, and automation.
- Partner with Security Engineering and Detection & Response on network authentication, segmentation, and network-based detection.
- Deliver networks for new offices and research facilities and upgrade existing sites through live migrations while minimizing disruption.
- Own vendor, carrier, and integrator relationships and the network hardware budget, including evaluations, contracts, lead times, and refresh planning.

## Requirements
- 10+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise campus and edge networks, including an environment with dozens of sites across regions.
- 5+ years leading engineers, including at least 3 years as a people manager.
- Strong technical judgment spanning architecture, protocol behavior, and failure modes.
- Experience operating networks, including out-of-band access, actionable monitoring, sustainable on-call models, and change safety.
- Experience with vendor evaluations and cross-functional problem solving.
- Clear communication with engineers, executives, contractors, and landlords.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

## Nice-to-haves
- Led corporate networking at a rapidly expanding company.
- Implemented certificate-based network authentication, such as 802.1X/EAP-TLS, and identity- or device-based segmentation at scale.
- Shipped network configuration as code and telemetry pipelines used by security and support teams.
- Designed dense wireless for large event spaces and high-occupancy floors.
- Led office builds with real estate and construction teams, including networks supporting physical security systems.
- Managed integrators, MSPs, or smart-hands providers while retaining design authority in-house.

## Technical Skills
- Enterprise firewalls and routing, including HA design, routing protocols, and fleet-wide policy management
- Campus switching and high-density enterprise wireless
- L2/L3 network design, redundancy, RF design, and 6 GHz wireless
- Certificate-based 802.1X authentication
- Dynamic segmentation and guest/IoT isolation
- Out-of-band management and secure administrative access
- Network automation and configuration as code
- Python, templating, vendor APIs, source control, and CI
- Streaming telemetry, flow pipelines, and log pipelines
- MDF/IDF design, structured cabling, power and cooling, and carrier/path diversity

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $285,000–$325,000 USD
- Hybrid policy: Staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time.

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