Staff+ Software Engineer (Observability)

About this role

• Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems
• Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization
• The Observability team owns the monitoring and telemetry infrastructure that every engineer and researcher at Anthropic depends on—from metrics and logging pipelines to distributed tracing, error analytics, alerting, and the dashboards and query interfaces that make it all actionable
• By joining this team, you’ll have a direct impact on the reliability and operational excellence of Anthropic’s research and product systems
• As Anthropic scales its infrastructure across massive GPU, TPU, and Trainium clusters, the volume and complexity of operational data is growing by orders of magnitude
• We’re building next-generation observability systems—high-throughput ingest pipelines, cost-efficient columnar storage, unified query layers across signals, and agentic diagnostic tools—to ensure that engineers can detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in minutes rather than hours, even as the systems they operate become exponentially more complex
• Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and error data across Anthropic’s multi-cluster infrastructure
• 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 integrations that make it easy for engineering teams to emit high-quality telemetry from their services
• Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure that enables teams to define, monitor, and respond to reliability target...