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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 14 days Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 40 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Anthropic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
- high 276 stale, 19 reposted of 603 open
- Hiring momentum
- 795 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Anthropic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Anthropic.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Observability team at Anthropic, you will design and build scalable telemetry systems that monitor and analyze operational data across the company's infrastructure. Your role will involve creating observability solutions, enhancing core platforms, and collaborating with various teams to improve system reliability and efficiency. You will tackle complex challenges related to high-throughput telemetry and provide deep visibility into system behavior.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anthropic as an employer.
What you need
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure
- Deep, hands-on experience with observability signals end to end
- Understanding of high-throughput telemetry pipelines and tradeoffs in collecting, storing, and querying operational data at scale
- Comfortable digging below the application layer into the kernel, network stack, or hardware
- Excellent communication skills and enjoyment in partnering with internal teams to improve operational visibility and incident response capabilities
- Excitement about building foundational infrastructure and navigating ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges
Nice to have
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience building or operating eBPF-based observability in production
- Experience running continuous profiling at fleet scale
- Kernel- and syscall-level debugging experience
- Experience profiling or instrumenting accelerator workloads
What you get
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Worth weighing
- No detailed information on specific technologies or tools used in the stack
- Visa sponsorship is available but not guaranteed for every role or candidate
- Requires being in the office at least 25% of the time, with some roles potentially requiring more
- High compensation range may indicate high expectations or pressure in the role
Summarised from Anthropic's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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