Engineering Manager, Continuous Deployment and Change Safety

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropics services change constantly. Application code infrastructure and runtime configuration all move to production many times a day. Our Safe Change team builds the continuous-deployment and feature-flagging systems that make those changes safe and reliable. The continuous-deployment platform moves a change through staged promotion runs health checks at each phase of deployment and gives service owners the levers to respond the moment something regresses. We provide the tools to modify runtime behavior roll out configuration safely and test changes. This team provides the paved path that lets everyone at Anthropic ship frequently without trading away reliability or security.

Were looking for an engineering manager to lead this team. The continuous-deployment platform is already widely adopted across Anthropic and the mandate is expanding quickly: bringing configuration changes onto the same safe path as code supporting additional deployment surfaces building progressive rollouts and establishing the golden path for safe deployments that every team across the company will rely on. Youll lead a team building infrastructure that nearly every other engineer at Anthropic depends on and youll partner closely with product inference security and infrastructure teams to make deployment safety a standard property of the platform rather than something each team reinvents.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building Anthropics continuous-deployment configuration and feature-flagging platforms owning planning execution and delivery against key milestones

• Set technical direction for the safe deployment of code infrastructure and configuration across Anthropics services

• Partner with product inference security and infrastructure teams to migrate services onto the paved path and make safe deployment the default

• Drive the roadmap for progressive rollouts health-check automation first-class configuration deployment and expansion to new deployment surfaces

• Define and track the metrics that measure deployment safety and speed and hold the team accountable to them

• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous fast-moving environment where the platform is still being built out

• Take an inclusive equitable approach to hiring coaching and career development and sustain a high-performing healthy team

• Represent the team across the engineering organization and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropics engineering management group

Minimum qualifications

• Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers

• A hands-on software engineering background as an individual contributor prior to moving into management

• Experience building or operating backend distributed or infrastructure systems in production

• Working knowledge of modern deployment and cloud-native tooling such as CI/CD pipelines Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create clarity across teams

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of engineering management experience including leading infrastructure platform or developer-experience teams

• Experience owning continuous delivery release engineering or deployment-safety systems

• Familiarity with progressive delivery techniques such as canary or blue-green deployments and automated rollback

• Experience with feature flagging or experimentation platforms

• A background in observability health checking or incident response and a track record of improving production reliability

• Experience treating configuration as a first-class safely deployed artifact

• A track record of building a culture of belonging and of engineering excellence

• Low ego high empathy and a habit of leading by example

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.