Technical Program Manager, Databases

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:

- Cross-region: how our databases achieve resilience and locality across geographic regions

- Multi-cloud: how we run and operate databases across multiple hyperscalers

- Private, public, and hybrid cloud: how our database footprint spans owned, cloud, and mixed environments

Success in this role is a highly available, 24x7x365 database infrastructure that every Anthropic service can depend on, across regions, clouds, and deployment models.

- Own the roadmap and execution across all three strategy pillars, turning architectural direction into sequenced, deliverable programs

- Coordinate across an unusually broad set of partners: database vendors, hyperscalers, internal platform teams, and infrastructure teams

- Manage external vendor and hyperscaler relationships at the working level: commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps

- Drive the dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs that come with operating databases as critical infrastructure for every service at Anthropic

- Create program documentation including roadmaps, status reports, risk assessments, and communication plans

- Facilitate technical decision-making by bringing together stakeholders, driving consensus, and ensuring timely resolution of blocking issues

- Have several years of experience in technical program management, with a track record of successfully delivering complex, cross-functional programs

- Have experience with database, storage, or core infrastructure programs and can engage meaningfully with the engineers who design and operate them

- Have managed external vendor or cloud provider relationships at the working level, including commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps

- Have experience with cross-region, multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud infrastructure (preferred but not required)

- Are highly organized and can manage multiple parallel workstreams effectively across distributed teams

- Thrive in unstructured environments with a knack for bringing order to chaos and creating clarity in ambiguous situations

- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority

- Are passionate about Anthropic's mission and interested in the challenges of operating AI infrastructure safely and reliably