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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Observability & Profiling - **Company:** Anthropic - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £325,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Layers, Profiling, Protocol Stack, Software Debugging, Operational Data Store, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Build Management, Dynatrace - **Published:** September 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=05d587bc3b2b0b2c ## About the Role * Have hands-on experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure * Have deep, hands-on experience with observability signals end to end-from instrumentation through ingest to query and analysis * Understand high-throughput telemetry pipelines and the tradeoffs involved in collecting, storing, and querying operational data at scale * Are comfortable digging below the application layer into the kernel, the network stack, or the hardware * Have excellent communication skills and enjoy partnering with internal teams to improve their operational visibility and incident response capabilities * Are excited about building foundational infrastructure and comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges, both independently and with a team, * 10+ years of relevant industry experience, including building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure * Experience building or operating eBPF-based observability in production-tracing, profiling, or network visibility * Experience running continuous profiling at fleet scale, including managing overhead budgets and symbolization * Kernel- and syscall-level debugging experience and performance engineering craft * Experience profiling or instrumenting accelerator workloads * Experience operating metrics systems at very high cardinality, or large-scale telemetry storage backends * Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collector pipelines, and tail-based sampling strategies * Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows such as automated root cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting, Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. ## Description Anthropic is seeking 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, profiling, 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., * 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 ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Crypto-secure Data Management with In-Database Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/632-crypto-secure-data-management-with-in-database-blockchain) - [The Power of Purpose: Unlocking Potential and Innovation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1110-the-power-of-purpose-unlocking-potential-and-innovation) - [Profiling Symfony & PHP apps with Blackfire](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/265-profiling-symfony-php-apps-with-blackfire) - [Build Delightful Mobile Experiences with Kotlin, Realm, and Atlas Device Sync](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/694-build-delightful-mobile-experiences-with-kotlin-realm-and-atlas-device-sync) - [It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100119-it-s-not-vibe-coding-if-you-know-what-you-re-doing) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Does The Tech Industry Have The Best Work-life Balance?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/427-does-the-tech-industry-have-the-best-work-life-balance) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london)