Anthropic

Staff Software Engineer, Billing Platform

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6 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$320k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship end-to-end billing capabilities including pricing primitives, payment flows, contract and entitlement models, and revenue data pipelines.
  • Design reliable interfaces for billing APIs and Finance revenue datasets that remain maintainable under change.
  • Make build-versus-buy decisions and extend third-party billing, payment, and tax platforms where appropriate.
  • Own payment authorization, retry logic, processing costs, dispute response, and fraud controls.
  • Automate enterprise contract amendments, pricing configuration changes, and billing support workflows.
  • Operate production systems, own SLOs, instrument revenue pipelines, and respond to operational pages.
  • Partner with Growth, Sales, Finance, Product, Legal, and Accounting on billing and revenue requirements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building backend or platform systems in production.
  • 3+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
  • Demonstrated ability to ship correct and maintainable systems in fast-moving environments with changing requirements.
  • Strong focus on correctness, data integrity, idempotency, reconciliation, and auditability.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across Product, Finance, Sales, Legal, and Accounting.
  • Experience with billing, payments, subscription, or fintech systems is preferred.
  • Experience integrating or extending third-party billing and payment platforms is preferred.
  • Experience with revenue reconciliation, financial reporting pipelines, or audit-ready systems is preferred.
  • Experience with enterprise commerce, CPQ, quote-to-cash, contract management, or B2B billing operations is preferred.
  • Experience optimizing authorization rates, payment costs, fraud controls, or chargebacks in self-serve or PLG environments is preferred.
  • At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range of $320,000–$405,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available with immigration-lawyer support.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

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About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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