# Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** Up to $2
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Container Orchestration, Vm Orchestration, Sandboxing, Credential Management, Capacity Planning, Infrastructure Scalability, Security Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Agent Runtime
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> Engineering Manager responsible for the Agent Runtime Platform at Anthropic, leading strategy, execution, and hands-on development of secure, scalable compute environments for AI agents. Requires 10+ years in large-scale platforms/distributed systems and management experience building platforms or agents.

## Job Description

## 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

## Requirements
- 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
- Deeply interested in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and agents, and committed to ensuring their safe deployment
- Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
- Obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
- Excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field

## Nice-to-Haves
- Engineering management experience on top of a strong IC track record
- Experience with harness engineering
- Experience with building security-sensitive infrastructure: sandboxing, workload isolation, credential management, or access control
- Experience with capacity planning and utilization across multiple cloud providers
- Experience working with researchers, engineers and other functional roles

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