Manager, Corporate Network Engineering at Anthropic

On-site - San Francisco, CA

The Corporate Network Engineering team owns Anthropic’s corporate network, managing wired, wireless, and edge infrastructure across offices and research facilities worldwide. The role leads a small team of network engineers, setting technical direction, defining architecture standards, overseeing reliability and operations, driving network‑as‑code initiatives, partnering with security and other internal teams, delivering new site builds and upgrades, and managing vendor relationships and hardware budgeting.

Requirements

Skills

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
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

Technologies

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 accessNetwork 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)

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