Engineering Manager, Connectivity - London

About the role

Our mission on the Connectivity team is to make Claude the most connected AI. As agents take on more real-world work, we're taking a leading role in defining how they get access to external systems — safely, with the right permissions, and in ways enterprises can trust. We ship for claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API.

We own the MCP proxy that routes every tool call and the OAuth and token management that keeps connections authenticated. We're also core contributors to the MCP spec — now an open standard under the Linux Foundation — and maintain the official Python and TypeScript SDKs.

We're looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead a team of Connectivity engineers based in London. The Connectivity team spans San Francisco and London, and you'll work closely with engineering leadership and partner teams in San Francisco to set direction and deliver together across both sites. You'll lead a team working on problems where reliability and enterprise trust are the bar: token refresh at scale, admin controls that let IT govern what agents can do, and proxy infrastructure that stays up when partner servers don't.

Key responsibilities

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

Minimum qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

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

Logistics

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

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 do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.