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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
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