Staff Observability Engineer: Scalable Profiling & Telemetry

AI Chopping Block; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 325,000 - 390,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure group. You will design scalable telemetry pipelines, build instrumentation libraries, and drive AI-assisted diagnostics across multi-cluster systems.

The role focuses on end-to-end signals, kernel-level visibility, and cross-team collaboration to improve reliability while reducing costs. Location-based hybrid policy requires in-office presence at least 25% of the time.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale observability infrastructure.
• End-to-end signals from instrumentation to query and analysis.
• Ability to investigate high-throughput telemetry at kernel and network levels.

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, driving 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.
• Drive 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.

Skills

Observability infra

Kernel debugging

Communication skills

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OpenTelemetry

eBPF

Telemetry pipelines

Job description

Anthropic is seeking Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure group. You will design scalable telemetry pipelines, build instrumentation libraries, and drive AI-assisted diagnostics across multi-cluster systems.

The role focuses on end-to-end signals, kernel-level visibility, and cross-team collaboration to improve reliability while reducing costs. Location-based hybrid policy requires in-office presence at least 25% of the time.