Tech Lead Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Software Engineering - Infrastructure · listed July 9, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
1+ years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$405,000 – $485,000 USD
Requirements listed
6
Length
1,177 words

In the posting’s own words

The Agent Runtime Platform provisions and runs the compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents: secure, credential-managed environments where agents do real engineering and knowledge work at scale. As an Engineering Manager on these teams, you will be responsible for ensuring you and your team are identifying and removing friction and blockers to productivity, experimenting at the frontier, and building security and quality into agents. You also will help bring clarity, focus, and context to your teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

What it asks for · 6

  • Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems
  • Have 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly in building platforms or agents at scale
  • Are deeply interested in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and agents, and are committed to ensuring their safe deployment
  • Have experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
  • Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
  • Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

Also a plus

  • 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

What the job covers

  • 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

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Security5×
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
Product & design
  • Roadmap2×

Words the posting leans on

  • agents14×
  • experience14×
  • management8×
  • building7×
  • platforms7×
  • scale7×
  • engineering6×
  • execution6×
  • build4×
  • capacity planning4×
  • cloud providers4×
  • credential management4×
  • infrastructure4×
  • isolation4×
  • manage4×
  • management experience4×

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