Engineering Manager, Connectivity - London

The role

You will lead a team of Connectivity engineers based in London to build infrastructure for tool use across Anthropic's product suite. You will work with leadership in San Francisco to set direction and deliver work spanning Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API.

What you will do

• Lead a team of engineers building connectivity infrastructure for tool use
• Hire, coach, and maintain a high-performing technical team
• Provide career development guidance to direct reports
• Partner with leadership in San Francisco and other teams to define the roadmap
• Drive cross-team and cross-org alignment to ship work across products
• Establish and drive adoption of engineering best practices and operational rigor
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives

Required qualifications

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• Technical background in backend or platform engineering
• Experience operating production distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated success building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. The team works to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.