Staff Software Engineer, Billing Platform

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Billing Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure that turns product usage into revenue across everything Anthropic ships: Claude.ai, the Developer Platform, Claude Code, and whatever comes next. This is production-critical infrastructure where correctness is non-negotiable, and the engineer will work closely with Finance, Product, Sales, and Accounting.

• Design and ship billing capabilities end to end — pricing primitives, payment flows, contract and entitlement models, revenue data pipelines.
• Build for correctness first; develop instincts for where idempotency, reconciliation, and audit trails matter.
• Own the interfaces — the billing API product teams integrate against and the revenue dataset Finance closes the books on.
• Make build-vs-buy calls on third-party billing, payment, and tax platforms.
• Own the payments stack — authorization rates, retry logic, processing cost, automated dispute response, and fraud controls.
• Drive down manual work in enterprise contract amendments, pricing config changes, and billing support escalations.
• Operate what you ship — own SLOs on customer-facing flows and instrument the revenue pipeline.

• Have 8+ years building backend or platform systems in production, and 3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
• Have a track record of shipping in fast-moving environments where requirements shift.
• Care about correctness and data integrity as first-class design concerns.
• Enjoy cross-functional work between Product, Finance, Sales, and Legal.
• Strong candidates may have built billing, payments, subscription, or fintech systems; integrated third-party billing and payment platforms; worked on revenue reconciliation or financial reporting pipelines; have experience with enterprise commerce (CPQ, quote-to-cash, contract management); or owned payments optimization in a self-serve or PLG environment.

Annual Salary: $320,000—$405,000 USD.

• Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Location-based hybrid policy: all staff expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic does sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to get a visa for offer recipients.