Anthropic
Staff Software Engineer, Finance Engineering
$320K–$405K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum years correlate with internal job level requirements; 10+ years is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, the company will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration counsel.
About the job
Build and lead a finance engineering platform that reliably processes company financial events into auditable accounting records and services.
What you'll do
- Design and build finance event APIs, integrations, processing, and an append-only accounting ledger and engine.
- Build SDKs and frameworks, embed audit and access controls, and operate production finance services to agreed reliability targets.
- Set technical direction and collaborate with engineering, finance operations, product, and internal audit on designs and shared APIs.
What they ask for
- Strong backend engineering in a statically typed language such as Go, Java, or Rust, or Python at scale.
- Experience with high-volume event-driven systems, including idempotent processing, replay, and backfill.
- Experience designing relational data models and writing SQL for complex, versioned data; designing APIs, SDKs, and service integrations.
- Experience with auditability, access control, or compliance requirements, and translating non-engineering requirements into technical designs.
Nice to have
- Experience building developer platforms, streaming systems such as Pub/Sub or Kafka, LLMs and agents including MCP, or ledger, billing, or payments systems.
- Familiarity with accounting, internal controls and audit, or ERP and financial systems such as Workday Financials.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Java, Rust, Python, SQL, Pub/Sub, Kafka, MCP
AI focus
Build finance platform APIs and SDKs used by Claude agents, which read and write under the same controls as people; experience building with LLMs and agents, including MCP, is preferred.
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