Manager, Corporate Network Engineering

Details

The Corporate Network Engineering team owns Anthropic’s corporate network, including wired, wireless, and edge infrastructure across offices and research facilities worldwide. The team treats the network as a production service: designed for failure, managed as code, observable end-to-end, and secure by default.

The manager will set technical direction, own architecture standards, guide designs and key trade-offs, lead vendor and platform decisions, and grow a small team of network engineers. The role partners with Buildouts, AV, Endpoint, Security Engineering, Physical Security, Workplace, Real Estate, Procurement, logistics and integration partners, and production networking teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Corporate Network Engineering team, including hiring, development, performance, planning, and prioritization.
• Set technical direction and own architecture standards across edge networking, campus switching, wireless, segmentation, out-of-band management, and telemetry.
• Review designs and risky changes and provide guidance on complex technical problems.
• Own reliability and operations, including actionable monitoring, incident response, post-incident reviews, sustainable on-call and escalation models, change safety, and lifecycle currency.
• Move the network fleet toward network-as-code using templated configuration, change control, staged rollouts, drift detection, and automation.
• Partner with Security Engineering and Detection & Response on network authentication, segmentation, and network-based detection sources.
• Deliver networks for new offices and research facilities and upgrade existing sites through live migrations while minimizing employee disruption.
• Own vendor, carrier, and integrator relationships and the network hardware budget, including evaluations, contracts, lead times, and multi-year refreshes.

Requirements

• 10+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise campus and edge networks, including experience with an environment spanning dozens of sites across regions.
• 5+ years leading engineers, including at least 3 years as a people manager.
• Ability to make technical judgments across architecture, protocol behavior, and failure modes, and to improve designs through reviews.
• Experience operating production networks, including out-of-band access, actionable monitoring, sustainable on-call models, and change safety.
• Ability to evaluate what to build, buy, or automate and manage vendor evaluations involving significant budgets.
• Strong communication skills with engineers, executives, contractors, and landlords.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. The required field of study is a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Additional Technical Experience

• Certificate-based network authentication, such as 802.1X/EAP-TLS, and identity- or device-based segmentation at scale.
• Network configuration as code and telemetry pipelines used by security and support teams.
• Dense wireless for large event spaces and high-occupancy floors.
• Office builds involving real estate and construction teams, including networks supporting physical security systems.
• Management of integrators, managed service providers, or smart-hands providers.

Technical Skills

• Enterprise edge networking, including firewalls, routing, high-availability design, routing protocols, and fleet-wide policy management.
• Campus switching and high-density enterprise wireless, including Layer 2/Layer 3 design, redundancy, RF design, 6 GHz, and high-density venues.
• Segmentation and access control, including certificate-based 802.1X, dynamic segmentation, and guest and IoT isolation.
• Out-of-band management and secure, auditable administrative access.
• Network automation and configuration as code using Python, templating, vendor APIs, source control, and CI.
• Network observability, including streaming telemetry, flow pipelines, and log pipelines.
• Physical infrastructure for buildouts, including MDF/IDF design, structured cabling, power and cooling, and carrier and path diversity.

Compensation

Annual salary: $285,000–$325,000 USD.

Work Policy and Logistics

Anthropic currently expects staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time. The position is based in San Francisco, California. Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to obtain visas for candidates when an offer is made, although sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role or candidate.