Manager, Corporate Network Engineering

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

3h•$285,000 - $325,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Corporate Network Engineering team owns Anthropic's corporate network: the wired, wireless, and edge infrastructure in our offices and research facilities around the world, and the standards, management systems, and telemetry that let a small team run them. We hold that network to the bar of a production service — designed for failure, managed as code, observable end-to-end, and secure by default — while delivering reliable connectivity to the people who depend on it every day. You'll set the technical direction together with your engineers and own the final decision on it and on the architecture standards, review and guide designs and the hard trade-offs, and lead vendor and platform decisions. You'll lead and grow a small team of network engineers: set priorities, drive decisions to closure, hire, and develop people. The team is small and the scope is broad, so this role needs real depth in campus and edge networking, judgment about what to standardize, automate, buy, and build, and the range to go from a wiring-closet decision to a budget defense in the same afternoon. You'll report to the head of IT Engineering and partner closely with our Buildouts, AV, and Endpoint teams; with Security Engineering on network security, authentication, and detections; with Physical Security, whose systems are critical for protecting Anthropic employees and depend on a reliable network; with Workplace, Real Estate, Procurement, and external logistics and integration partners on new site buildouts; and with our production networking teams, whose bar for reliability and automation is the one we hold ourselves to. Your work will directly shape how we scale to AI Safety Level 4 and beyond.

Requirements

Have 10+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise campus and edge networks, including at least one environment with dozens of sites across regions
Have 5+ years leading engineers, including at least 3 years as a people manager
Lead through technical judgment: whether or not you've been hands-on-keyboard lately, you can go from architecture to protocol behavior to failure modes with your engineers, and your reviews make their designs better
Default to the secure design, then do the creative work to make it painless for the people using it — and can walk an executive or an engineer through the trade-off and make a recommendation
Have run the operational side, not just designed it: out-of-band access, monitoring people act on, an on-call model a small team can sustain, and change safety
Are pragmatic about what to build, buy, or automate, have run vendor evaluations with real money at stake, and chase problems across organizational boundaries to the actual root cause
Communicate clearly with engineers, executives, contractors, and landlords, and can bring a room of senior engineers with strong opinions to a decision they'll commit to
Want real technical ownership with a small team — including if you've led a larger organization before — and care about building infrastructure for an organization trying to get AI right
Enterprise edge: firewalls and routing (HA design, routing protocols, policy management across a fleet)
Campus switching and high-density enterprise wireless (L2/L3 design, redundancy, RF design, 6 GHz, high-density venues)
Segmentation and access control (certificate-based 802.1X, dynamic segmentation, guest and IoT isolation)
Out-of-band management and secure, auditable administrative access
Network automation and configuration as code (Python, templating, vendor APIs, source control, CI)
Network observability (streaming telemetry, flow and log pipelines)
Physical infrastructure for buildouts (MDF/IDF design, structured cabling, power and cooling, carrier and path diversity)

Nice To Haves

Have led corporate networking at a company that added offices faster than it added network engineers
Have implemented certificate-based network authentication (802.1X/EAP-TLS or equivalent) and identity- or device-based segmentation at scale
Have shipped network configuration as code and built telemetry pipelines that security and support teams actually use
Have designed dense wireless for large event spaces and high-occupancy floors
Have been through multiple office builds with real estate and construction teams — including networks that physical security systems depend on — and know what to ask for before the walls close
Have managed integrators, MSPs, or smart-hands providers as an extension of a small team while keeping design authority in-house

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the Corporate Network Engineering team — hiring, development, performance, planning, and prioritization
Set technical direction with the team and own the final call on architecture standards across edge, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, out-of-band management, and telemetry; review designs and risky changes, and step in on the hard problems
Own reliability and operations: monitoring people act on, incident response and post-incident reviews that produce changes, an on-call and escalation model a small team can sustain, change safety, and lifecycle currency
Move the fleet toward network-as-code: templated configuration with change control, staged rollouts, drift detection, and automation that removes operational toil
Partner with Security Engineering and Detection & Response on network authentication, segmentation, and the network as a detection source
Deliver networks for new offices and research facilities and upgrade existing sites through live migrations — with Buildouts, AV, Physical Security, Workplace, Real Estate, and our logistics partners — while keeping interruptions to employees minimal
Own vendor, carrier, and integrator relationships and the network hardware budget: evaluations, contracts, lead times, and multi-year refresh