Software Engineer, Observability & Profiling at Anthropic · London
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10+ years of experience
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Education
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The ad says: “<p><strong>Minimum education: </strong>Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience</p>”
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<li>Have hands-on experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure</li>
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<li>Have deep, hands-on experience with observability signals end to end—from instrumentation through ingest to query and analysis</li>
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<li>Understand high-throughput telemetry pipelines and the tradeoffs involved in collecting, storing, and querying operational data at scale
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<li>Are comfortable digging below the application layer into the kernel, the network stack, or the hardware</li>
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<li>Have excellent communication skills and enjoy partnering with internal teams to improve their operational visibility and incident respon
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<li>Are excited about building foundational infrastructure and comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges, both inde
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<li>10+ years of relevant industry experience, including building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure</li>
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<li>Experience building or operating eBPF-based observability in production—tracing, profiling, or network visibility</li>
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
Why they ask: Looks for red flags and motivation.
How to answer: Stay positive: what you want next, not what you dislike.
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