# Staff Software Engineer, Finance Engineering

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer, Finance Engineering at Anthropic, you will build a platform for finance events, focusing on accuracy and audit-grade controls. This involves designing and implementing a front door for finance events, an append-only ledger, and an accounting engine.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design and build the front door into finance and its governed contracts, including APIs, event bus, adapters, data-quality gates, and processing.

- Develop the accounting ledger and engine with an append-only ledger, idempotent posting, rules framework, and period locks.

- Create SDKs and frameworks for finance apps and agents.

- Implement controls into the platform as code, such as immutable audit trail, maker-checker, scoped access, and segregation of duties.

- Build and run production services for tax and collections, ensuring reliability, uptime, latency, and correctness targets.

- Shape the platform's technical direction, including architecture, engineering standards, and design reviews.

## Requirements

- Strong backend engineering in a statically typed language (Go, Java, Rust) or Python at scale.

- Experience with high-volume, event-driven systems, idempotent processing, replay, and backfill.

- Relational data model design and SQL for complex, versioned data.

- API, SDK, and service-to-service integration design.

- Experience with auditability, access control, or compliance requirements.

- Strong written and verbal communication.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience.

- Experience building developer platforms or paved paths.

- Familiarity with streaming systems like Pub/Sub or Kafka.

- Experience with LLMs and agents, including MCP.

- Background in building ledgers, sub-ledgers, billing, or payments systems.

- Knowledge of accounting concepts and internal controls.

## Logistics

- Annual salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD.

- Location: San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA.

- Hybrid policy: 25% office time.

- Visa sponsorship available.

## Skills

### Required
- backend engineering
- event-driven systems
- relational data models
- API design
- auditability
- communication

### Nice to have
- developer platforms
- streaming systems
- LLMs
- accounting concepts
- internal controls

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