Engineering Manager, Connectivity - London

About the role

Anthropic’s 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.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of engineers building the connectivity infrastructure that powers tool use across Anthropic's product suite, from the MCP proxy to OAuth and token management
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching top technical talent, and maintain a high-performing team
• Coach, mentor, and provide career development guidance to your direct reports, helping them set and achieve their professional goals
• Partner with Connectivity engineering leadership in San Francisco, along with product, security, and platform teams, to define the team's roadmap and create clarity for the team in an ambiguous and evolving environment
• Drive cross-team and cross-org alignment to ship work that spans claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API, working effectively with teams primarily based in the US
• Establish and drive adoption of engineering best practices within your team, including the operational rigor (on-call, incident response, postmortems) required for infrastructure that other teams and external partners depend on
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management team

What they’re looking for

Select a requirement to inspect fit, evidence or application context.

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• A technical background in backend or platform engineering, with the depth to guide architectural decisions and engage credibly in technical discussions
• Experience operating production distributed systems, with an understanding of what reliability, observability, and incident response require at scale
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build consensus across teams and time zones
• Demonstrated success building a culture of belonging, and of product and engineering excellence
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Helpful, not always essential

• 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager
• Familiarity with MCP or experience contributing to open standards or open source ecosystems
• Experience leading teams that collaborate closely with distributed or cross-timezone partner teams
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth, token management, or identity systems
• Experience building or operating API gateways, proxies, or multi-tenant platforms
• Experience building for enterprise customers, including admin controls, governance, and compliance requirements
• Experience working on AI/ML products or agentic systems
• The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
• For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
• Annual Salary:
• £255,000—£325,000 GBP