320K–485K USD / year
Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability
OtherHybrid — San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Published on 2026-10-08
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About this role
Anthropic is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Observability team, responsible for building and maintaining crucial monitoring and telemetry infrastructure. The role involves enhancing operational visibility and developing tools to detect and resolve issues quickly across large-scale systems.
About the company
Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.
The team
Observability team within the Infrastructure organization
Stack
eBPFtelemetry pipelinesinstrumentation librariesSDKsprofilingerror analytics
What you'll do
- Design and build telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces
- Create observability solutions for system behavior visibility
- Lead migrations and architectural improvements
- Build instrumentation libraries and auto-instrumentation tools
- Develop cross-signal correlation and diagnostic tooling
- Improve fleet-wide efficiency through profiling and telemetry
What we're looking for
- Experience with large-scale observability infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with observability signals
- Understanding of telemetry pipeline tradeoffs
- Debugging skills below the application layer
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous challenges
Nice to have
- Experience with eBPF-based observability
- Continuous profiling at fleet scale
- Kernel-level debugging experience
- Instrumenting accelerator workloads
- Operating high cardinality metrics systems
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
- Interest in applying AI to operational workflows