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Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer on Anthropic's Observability team within the Infrastructure organization, building and evolving telemetry, monitoring, and tracing infrastructure to support large-scale AI research and product systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and error data across Anthropic's multi-cluster infrastructure
  • Build observability solutions that give engineers deep, low-overhead visibility into system behavior across the fleet
  • Own and evolve core observability platforms, leading migrations and architectural improvements that improve reliability, reduce cost, and scale with organizational growth
  • Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and eBPF-based auto-instrumentation to emit high-quality telemetry, with and without code changes
  • Reduce mean time to detection and resolution by building cross-signal correlation (from kernel-level events up to application traces), unified query interfaces, and AI-assisted diagnostic tooling
  • Improve fleet-wide efficiency by turning continuous profiling and utilization telemetry into actionable optimization insights across CPU, memory, and accelerator fleets
  • Partner with Research, Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams to ensure observability solutions meet the unique needs of each organization

Qualifications

  • Experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with observability signals end to end, from instrumentation through ingest to query and analysis
  • Understanding of high-throughput telemetry pipelines and the tradeoffs involved in collecting, storing, and querying operational data at scale
  • Comfort debugging below the application layer, in the kernel, the network stack, or the hardware
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner with internal teams to improve their operational visibility and incident response capabilities
  • Ability to work independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges

Skills

Required:Observability tooling
Nice to have:eBPFContinuous profilingKernel/network/hardware debugging

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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