Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own monitoring and telemetry used by every engineer and researcher.
- Improve reliability of research and product systems at massive scale.
- Help cut incident diagnosis from hours to minutes fleet-wide.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded builder who loves deep debugging below the application layer and thrives on ambiguous, high-impact problems. Collaborative and independent, you care about reliability and empowering other engineers.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with observability signals end to end, from instrumentation through ingest to query and analysis
- Understanding of high-throughput telemetry pipelines and the tradeoffs involved in collecting, storing, and querying operational data at scale
- Comfort debugging below the application layer, in the kernel, the network stack, or the hardware
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner with internal teams to improve their operational visibility and incident response capabilities
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google