Role Overview
The Manager, Corporate Network Engineering role is an onsite leadership position based in San Francisco, CA, focused on guiding the team that owns Anthropic's global corporate network infrastructure. This position suits an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in enterprise edge networking, architecture standards, and network automation.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, hire, and develop a growing team of corporate network engineers by establishing priorities, planning, and driving key decisions.
Define the technical direction and architecture standards across campus switching, wireless, edge, telemetry, segmentation, and out-of-band management.
Oversee network reliability, operational monitoring, incident response, change safety, and a sustainable on-call rotation.
Transition the network fleet toward network-as-code through templated configurations, staged rollouts, drift detection, and automation.
Collaborate closely with Security Engineering, Detection & Response, Workplace, Real Estate, Buildouts, AV, and Physical Security teams.
Deliver and upgrade networks for new offices and research facilities through live migrations while minimizing employee disruptions.
Manage vendor, carrier, and integrator relationships, contract negotiations, hardware budgets, and multi-year lifecycle refreshes.
Requirements
At least 10 years of experience designing, building, and operating enterprise campus and edge networks, including environments with dozens of multi-regional sites.
At least 5 years of experience leading engineers, with a minimum of 3 years acting as a people manager.
Proven technical judgment with the ability to navigate architecture, protocol behavior, and failure modes alongside engineering staff.
Practical operational experience covering out-of-band access, actionable monitoring, change safety, and sustainable on-call models.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Ability to work onsite in the San Francisco office in accordance with the location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in office at least 25% of the time.
Nice to Have
Experience managing corporate networking at a company scaling its office footprint faster than its network engineering headcount.
Implementation of certificate-based network authentication such as 802.1X/EAP-TLS alongside device- or identity-based segmentation at scale.
History of shipping network configuration as code and building telemetry pipelines utilized by security and support teams.
Background designing dense wireless for high-occupancy floors and large event spaces.
Experience navigating multiple office builds alongside real estate and construction teams.
Track record managing integrators, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), or smart-hands vendors while maintaining in-house design authority.
Skills and Tools
Enterprise edge firewalls and routing, including high availability designs, routing protocols, and policy management.
Campus switching and high-density enterprise wireless, covering L2/L3 design, redundancy, RF design, 6 GHz, and high-density venues.
Segmentation and access control, such as certificate-based 802.1X, dynamic segmentation, and guest or IoT isolation.
Out-of-band management and secure, auditable administrative access.
Network automation and configuration as code utilizing Python, templating, vendor APIs, source control, and CI.
Network observability through streaming telemetry, flow pipelines, and log pipelines.
Physical infrastructure buildouts involving MDF/IDF design, structured cabling, power, cooling, and path diversity.
Salary and Benefits
Annual base salary range of $285,000 to $325,000 USD.
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Optional equity donation matching.
Generous vacation and parental leave policies.
Flexible working hours and a collaborative office space.
Visa sponsorship is available for qualifying candidates, supported by an immigration lawyer.
About the Company
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a mission to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that remain safe and beneficial for society. Operating as a quickly growing team of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders, the organization views AI research as an empirical science akin to physics and biology. Employees work collaboratively on large-scale research efforts to advance long-term goals in AI safety and alignment.
How to Apply
Please visit the official Anthropic careers page to submit your application for this role.
