Engineering Manager, Continuous Deployment and Change Safety

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic's services change constantly, with application code, infrastructure, and runtime configuration being deployed to production many times a day. The Safe Change team builds the continuous-deployment and feature-flagging systems that ensure these changes are safe and reliable. This platform manages staged promotions, runs health checks at each phase, and provides service owners with the ability to respond to regressions immediately. It offers tools for modifying runtime behavior, safely rolling out configuration, and testing changes, serving as the primary path for frequent, reliable, and secure deployments across Anthropic. The role involves leading a team to expand this platform's capabilities, including integrating configuration changes into the safe deployment path, supporting new deployment surfaces, building progressive rollouts, and establishing a company-wide standard for safe deployments. The Engineering Manager will lead a team responsible for infrastructure used by nearly every engineer at Anthropic and will collaborate with product, inference, security, and infrastructure teams to embed deployment safety into the platform.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of engineers building Anthropic's 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 Anthropic's 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 Anthropic's engineering management group.