Staff Software Engineer - Observability & Reliability

Anthropic; Greater London; On-site; GBP 325,000 - 390,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research firm based in the United Kingdom is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join their Observability team. The role involves designing scalable telemetry systems and improving observability platforms to support large-scale AI infrastructure. Candidates with over 10 years of experience in observability, strong programming skills in Python or similar, and a passion for building foundational infrastructure will thrive in this position. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in observability or monitoring infrastructure.
• Deep experience in metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics.
• Proficiency in Python, Rust, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines.
• Own and evolve core observability platforms.
• Create instrumentation libraries and SDKs.

Skills

Large-scale observability systems

Telemetry data analysis

Communication skills

Python

Rust

Go

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

Job description

A leading AI research firm based in the United Kingdom is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join their Observability team. The role involves designing scalable telemetry systems and improving observability platforms to support large-scale AI infrastructure. Candidates with over 10 years of experience in observability, strong programming skills in Python or similar, and a passion for building foundational infrastructure will thrive in this position. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.