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Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency
Menlo Ventures PortfolioNew York, NY · full time · Senior
$405,000 – $485,000
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What this role is
Lead Anthropic's compute scheduler team, which builds the systems that route workloads across the company's massive Kubernetes fleet and keep the infrastructure running efficiently. This role suits experienced engineering managers with hands-on distributed systems expertise who want to own critical infrastructure that unblocks research and product across the organization.
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience managing and growing software engineering teams
- Hands-on software engineering background as an individual contributor
- Experience building or operating large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems in production
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cluster scheduling concepts such as resource requests, limits, affinity, priority and preemption, and custom schedulers or controllers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including leading infrastructure, platform, or compute teams
- Experience owning a cluster scheduler, job orchestration system, or resource manager at scale
- Familiarity with scheduling ML workloads on accelerators and tradeoffs between utilization, fairness, and latency
- Experience building developer tooling that other engineers rely on daily
- Background in observability or incident response for control-plane systems and track record of improving production reliability
- Track record of building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence
- Low ego, high empathy, and habit of leading by example