Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability

Anthropic

San Francisco, CA, USA
$405,000—$485,000 usd py
On-site
Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines
Own and evolve core observability platforms
Build instrumentation libraries, sdks, and integrations
Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization

Job Summary

  • Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization.
  • By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the reliability and operational excellence of Anthropic’s research and product systems.
  • We’re building next-generation observability systems—high-throughput ingest pipelines, cost-efficient columnar storage, unified query layers across signals, and agentic diagnostic tools—to ensure that engineers can detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in minutes rather than hours.

Matching Summary

Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization.

Salary

$405,000—$485,000 USD

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines
  • Own and evolve core observability platforms
  • Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations
  • Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure
  • Reduce mean time to detection and resolution
  • Partner with Research, Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with high cardinality metrics systems
  • Experience with columnar databases for analytics
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry
  • Experience building or operating alerting platforms
  • Experience with Kubernetes-native monitoring
  • Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Deep experience with at least one observability signal area
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, or Go
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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