# Software Engineering Manager, Network Security

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $405k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Network Security, Vpc Design, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Egress Control, Network Segmentation, Mtls, Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Cloud Interconnects, Private Connectivity, Infrastructure Security, Distributed Training, Ai Security
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads Anthropic’s Network Security Engineering team, setting strategy and managing engineers who build secure-by-default controls across cloud providers and AI data centers. The role requires extensive engineering management experience, hands-on network security expertise, Kubernetes networking knowledge, and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the network security roadmap, threat-modeling the management plane, Kubernetes, and cloud interconnects.
- Design and implement default-deny ingress and egress, segmentation between research, training, and production, private connectivity, and mTLS/service identity across environments.
- Ship secure-by-default primitives so new clusters, VPCs, and data center links inherit appropriate security boundaries.
- Partner with networking, cluster, and data center teams during design to incorporate secure topology, routing, and firewall decisions.
- Build visibility into traffic and boundary drift, including detection of exfiltration paths and safe automated remediation.
- Own network security evidence for security goals and compliance, demonstrating that required invariants hold.
- Hire, grow, and retain senior security software engineers; support career development and establish scalable team practices.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of frontline management experience.
- Experience managing infrastructure or security engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and managing senior and staff engineers.
- Experience growing engineers into staff or lead roles and making performance-management decisions when coaching is unsuccessful.
- Experience maintaining team delivery through reorganizations, charter changes, or leadership turnover.
- Experience owning a security or infrastructure domain end to end, including multi-year strategy and year-long cross-organizational initiatives.
- Experience scaling a team and its systems through hypergrowth.
- Hands-on network security engineering in cloud and/or on-premises environments, including VPC design, interconnects, private service connectivity, cloud firewall policy, egress control, physical segmentation, and out-of-band or management-plane security.
- Experience with threat modeling and risk assessment for networked systems.
- Experience securing Kubernetes networking at scale or working in high-assurance environments where controls must be evidenced.
- Clear and persuasive written and verbal communication.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

## Nice-to-haves
- Built or rebuilt a hiring loop while maintaining hiring standards during rapid headcount growth.
- Exposure to large-scale distributed training and its networking requirements.
- Solved end-to-end networking problems with internal users, cloud account teams, and hardware or colocation vendors.
- Took infrastructure from initial implementation through production maturity and reliability.
- Familiarity with AI security and safety concepts.
- Low-ego, empathetic, pragmatic, and steady leadership style.

## Compensation and benefits
- Annual salary: **$405,000–$485,000 USD**.
- Hybrid policy: staff are currently expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.
- Visa sponsorship may be available depending on the role and candidate.

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