Technical Program Manager, Databases

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="heading"><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic's databases underpin every service the company runs: Claude, our APIs, and the internal systems behind them. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive the strategy and execution that takes this infrastructure to the next level of availability and scale. The mandate centers on three interlocking strategies:</p> <ul> <li>Cross-region: how our databases achieve resilience and locality across geographic regions</li> <li>Multi-cloud: how we run and operate databases across multiple hyperscalers</li> <li>Private, public, and hybrid cloud: how our database footprint spans owned, cloud, and mixed environments</li> </ul> <p>Success in this role is a highly available, 24x7x365 database infrastructure that every Anthropic service can depend on, across regions, clouds, and deployment models.</p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own the roadmap and execution across all three strategy pillars, turning architectural direction into sequenced, deliverable programs</li> <li>Coordinate across an unusually broad set of partners: database vendors, hyperscalers, internal platform teams, and infrastructure teams</li> <li>Manage external vendor and hyperscaler relationships at the working level: commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps</li> <li>Drive the dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs that come with operating databases as critical infrastructure for every service at Anthropic</li> <li>Create program documentation including roadmaps, status reports, risk assessments, and commu