Staff Observability Engineer: Fleet Telemetry & Profiling

anthropic

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 325,000 - 390,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Anthropic seeks Software Engineers to join the Observability team within the Infrastructure organization. You will design and operate scalable telemetry ingest, logging, traces, and profiling to improve reliability of Anthropic's AI research and product systems.

As Anthropic scales its infrastructure across GPU/TPU/Trainium clusters, you will help build high-throughput telemetry pipelines, fleet-wide profiling, and AI-assisted diagnostic tooling to detect and resolve issues quickly, enabling

Qualifications

Experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure.
End-to-end experience with observability signals—from instrumentation through ingest to query and analysis.
Ability to work with high-throughput telemetry pipelines and data storage at scale.
Comfort digging below the application layer into kernel, network, or hardware.
Strong communication and collaboration with internal teams to improve visibility and incident response.
Wamiliarity with building foundational infrastructure and navigating high-impact technical challenges.

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 provide deep, low-overhead visibility into system behavior across the fleet.
Own and evolve core observability platforms, driving migrations and architectural improvements for reliability and cost efficiency.
Develop instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and eBPF-based auto-instrumentation to emit high-quality telemetry with or without code changes.
Reduce mean time to detection and resolution via cross-signal correlation and unified query interfaces.