# 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 Description

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.

You will build a platform for finance events, including a front door, an append-only ledger, and an accounting engine that posts each event exactly once.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build the front door into finance and its governed contracts: APIs for apps and agents, an event bus for systems that publish, adapters for vendor apps and reports, data-quality gates, and processing that posts every event exactly once, with replay and backfill

- Drive the build of the accounting ledger and engine: an append-only ledger with idempotent posting, a rules framework that turns business events into journal entries, translation into the ERP, and period locks

- Design and build the SDKs and frameworks that finance apps and agents build on

- Build controls into the platform as code: immutable audit trail, maker-checker, scoped access and segregation of duties

- Build and run the production services that other engineering teams call in real time, such as the tax and collections services in the billing flow, and own their reliability: uptime, latency, throughput and correctness targets agreed with those teams

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

## Minimum Qualifications

- Strong backend engineering in a statically typed language such as Go, Java or Rust, or Python at scale

- Experience designing and running high-volume, event-driven systems (publish/subscribe, streaming) with idempotent processing, replay and backfill

- Experience designing relational data models and writing SQL for complex, versioned data

- Experience designing APIs, SDKs and service-to-service integrations used by other teams

- Experience building systems with auditability, access control or compliance requirements

- Experience turning requirements from non-engineering partners into technical designs

- Strong written and verbal communication, including design docs

## Preferred Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience

- Experience building developer platforms or paved paths

- Experience with streaming systems such as Pub/Sub or Kafka

- Experience building with LLMs and agents, including MCP

- Built a ledger, sub-ledger, billing or payments system

- Familiarity with accounting concepts: double-entry, journal entries

- Familiarity with internal controls and audit concepts: audit trails, segregation of duties, change management

- Exposure to ERP or financial systems, such as Workday Financials

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 USD.

## Logistics

- 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.

- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas!

## Skills

### Required
- backend engineering
- event-driven systems
- relational data models
- SQL
- API design
- SDK design
- service-to-service integrations
- auditability
- access control
- compliance requirements

### Nice to have
- developer platforms
- streaming systems
- LLMs
- agents
- ledger
- sub-ledger
- billing
- payments
- accounting concepts
- internal controls
- audit concepts
- ERP

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