Engineering Manager, Claude Developer Platform

Engineering Manager, Claude Developer Platform

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About Anthropic

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.

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The Role

Since launch, the Anthropic API has seen rapid growth and adoption by companies of all sizes to build AI applications with our industry‑leading models. We’re looking for experienced leaders to lead teams within our Claude Developer Platform organization, which is responsible for the Anthropic API and developer experiences. The team owns the end‑to‑end flow for using the Anthropic API, including everything from documentation and SDKs to prompt engineering and model customization tools.

EMs

Currently Hiring

• Developer Experience – Our Developer Experience team strives to build best‑in‑class experiences for developers building on Claude APIs. This includes our SDKs, documentation, console experiences, and observability. As our platform continues to support more and more complex integrations, the team is obsessed with ensuring that developers have high‑quality tools to set them up for success.
• Platform Tools – The Platform Tools team has a goal to spend time with customers, learn what they need to build the integrations they require, and improve the platform to support these use cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in crafting an industry‑defining developer experience for building AI applications.
• Collaborate with product and research teams to define the vision and developer roadmap.
• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous and evolving environment.
• Work cross‑functionally to design clear interfaces and processes for shipping products that span many teams.
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching top technical talent, and maintain a high‑performing team.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager.
• A background in fullstack development – comfortable diving into various technology stacks, frontend, backend, and at times deeper infrastructure.
• A strong product mindset, able to navigate through ambiguity, and willingness to wear multiple hats (e.g., product management, design).
• Experience recruiting, scaling, and retaining engineering talent in a high‑growth environment.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in building a culture of belonging, and of product and engineering excellence.
• Startup experience, building products from zero to one.
• Experience building APIs and/or developer products for external developers.

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Expertise in modern web development stacks (React, Next.js, etc.).
• Experience working on AI/ML products.

Final date to receive applications:
None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Location Preference:
Preference will be given to candidates based in the SF and Seattle areas as this position is part of an SF based team.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full‑time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary

$320,000—$405,000 USD

Logistics Education requirements

We require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

Visa sponsorship

We sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more…