Engineering Manager, Finance Platform | Anthropic Careers

The Briefed; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Flexible working hours

Collaborative office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the finance platform that posts every event exactly once and maintains an audit-grade ledger and accounting engine. You will hire and grow the team, setting a high bar for production systems and reliability.

You will work with Billing, Compute, and Infra to define data contracts, APIs, and observability, ensuring traceability from source events to the final books and supporting fast, compliant product enablement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams that build and run high-volume backend systems where correctness matters.
• Experience building or running event-driven systems with idempotent processing, replay, and backfill.
• Strong judgment on platform boundaries, data contracts, and API design.
• Experience hiring and growing engineers and setting engineering standards for platforms.
• Ability to work across functions with upstream engineering teams, finance, and auditors, and to explain technical trade-offs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers: hire, coach, and maintain high engineering quality.
• Own delivery of the front door for finance events and its contracts, plus the accounting ledger and engine.
• Ensure production services used by other teams are reliable and traceable in real time.
• Provide platform support through SDKs, frameworks, access controls, SOX guardrails, and observability.
• Define and maintain reliability and correctness via SLOs, tests, and daily checks from source to books.
• Align on design, data contracts, and APIs with Billing, Compute, and Infra teams.
• Reduce time to support new products and compute buildouts.

Skills

Event-driven systems

Ledgers and billing

API design

Reliability engineering

Go / Pub/Sub / Kafka

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Go

Job description

Every dollar Anthropic earns and every dollar it spends on compute has to reach the books correctly, and the volume grows with Claude usage. The goal is a continuous close with zero material issues and audit-grade controls. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the engineers who build the platform that gets there: one front door for every finance event, an append-only ledger, and an accounting engine that posts each event exactly once. You will hire and grow the team and hold the bar for how the platform is built and run in production. Its users include Claude agents, which read and write through the same APIs and controls as people. You don’t need a finance background; if you have led teams building backend systems where correctness matters, Anthropic will teach you the domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers: hire, coach, and hold a high bar for engineering quality
• Own delivery of the front door for finance events and its governed contracts, plus the accounting ledger and engine, so every event is posted exactly once and traceable to its source
• Be accountable for production services that other engineering teams call in real time, such as the tax and collections services in the billing flow
• Make sure finance apps and agents have the platform support they need: SDKs and frameworks, scoped access, SOX guardrails, observability, and capabilities that Claude products do not provide out of the box
• Define and own the reliability and correctness bar: SLOs on services other teams call, tests that check key upstream calculations on every change, and daily accuracy and completeness checks from source to books
• Align on technical design, data contracts, and APIs with engineering leaders in Billing, Compute, and Infra
• Reduce the time it takes finance to support a new product, program, or compute buildout

Requirements

• Experience leading teams that build and run high-volume backend systems where correctness matters, such as ledgers, billing, payments, metering, or other systems of record
• Experience building or running event-driven systems with idempotent processing, replay, and backfill, and knowing what it takes to keep them correct in production
• Sound judgment on platform boundaries, data contracts, and API design
• Experience hiring and growing engineers and setting engineering standards for platforms
• Ability to work across functions with upstream engineering teams, finance, and auditors, and to explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineering partners in writing and in person
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field
• Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level for the position

Skills

Technical Skills

• Event-driven systems, idempotent processing, replay, and backfill
• Ledgers, billing, payments, metering, and systems of record
• Platform, data contract, and API design
• Reliability engineering (SLOs, testing, accuracy checks)
• Go, Pub/Sub, and Kafka (preferred)

Soft Skills

• Hiring, coaching, and growing engineers
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, finance, and auditors
• Clear written and verbal communication of technical trade-offs
• Setting a high engineering bar

Nice to Have

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years total in the industry
• Experience building developer platforms or paved paths used by other builders
• Experience with Go and streaming systems such as Pub/Sub or Kafka
• Experience building with LLMs and agents, including MCP
• Experience building or running a ledger or sub-ledger, with working knowledge of double-entry accounting
• Experience managing teams through audit and compliance work, such as SOX change management, segregation of duties, and audit trails
• Experience with ERP or financial systems, such as Workday Financials or Oracle Financials

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Collaborative office space