Job brief: Engineering Manager, Claude Platform

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• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (4 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Anthropic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $405,000 to $485,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-10-14

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• You've built and scaled distributed systems in production, and you have the technical depth required to guide architecture and API design
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Conditions

• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Main duties

• Lead a team of engineers to ship high quality work quickly, owning planning, prioritization, delivery, and operational health
• Partner with product to set your team's roadmap, and bring a strong point of view on what developers need
• Talk to customers directly and turn what you learn into engineering priorities
• Guide API design and architecture decisions for distributed systems that have to stay reliable as usage grows
• Work closely with Research, Safeguards, Security, and go-to-market teams to bring new model capabilities to developers safely

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in New York, NY: $189k a year (479 listings, 40 employers). This listing is 135% higher.
• Across Anthropic's 544 open listings, 55% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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