London-based Staff Engineer, Observability & Profiling

Anthropic Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in London, UK is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Observability & Profiling to design and build scalable telemetry pipelines across multi-cluster infrastructure. You will own observability platforms and drive improvements with low overhead instrumentation and AI-assisted diagnostics.

The role emphasizes deep kernel- and network-level visibility, eBPF-based tracing, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to reduce mean time to detection and improve reliability for research and product

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of relevant industry experience in observability or monitoring infrastructure.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collector pipelines, and tail-based sampling.
• Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines across multi-cluster infrastructure.
• Build observability solutions providing low-overhead visibility into system behavior.
• Own and evolve core observability platforms and drive architectural improvements.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Hands-on engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OpenTelemetry

eBPF

Job description

Anthropic in London, UK is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Observability & Profiling to design and build scalable telemetry pipelines across multi-cluster infrastructure. You will own observability platforms and drive improvements with low overhead instrumentation and AI-assisted diagnostics.

The role emphasizes deep kernel- and network-level visibility, eBPF-based tracing, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to reduce mean time to detection and improve reliability for research and product