Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Asset Systems

aijoblist; New York, Seattle, San Francisco (NY, WA, CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to create systems that track and govern infrastructure assets with precision. You will build software supporting asset management involving financial and internal controls.

The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree and proficiency in a statically typed language, such as Go or Rust, plus experience in front-end development and relational data models.

Compensation ranges from $320,000 to $405,000 annually based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience translating non-engineering requirements into technical designs.
• Familiarity with internal controls and audit concepts.
• Experience building or operating asset lifecycle management systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the systems to track and govern infrastructure assets.
• Implement compliance features such as immutable event logging and audit trails.
• Translate operational requirements into reliable software for infrastructure teams.

Skills

Proficiency in a compiled, statically typed language (Go or Rust)

Front-end web development experience

Experience with designing relational data models

Experience building APIs and service integrations

Experience with auditability and compliance in systems

Strong written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

TypeScript

Figma

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Anthropic's infrastructure footprint — datacenters, networking, compute, and facilities — is growing rapidly, and so is the need to track, account for, and govern those assets with precision and confidence. Our finance, accounting, internal audit, and infrastructure teams need a shared, trustworthy view of every asset from the moment it's purchased through receipt, deployment, transfers, and eventual disposal — with the controls, auditability, and reporting required to operate responsibly at scale.

We've started building the systems to meet that need, and we're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the build and own its ongoing expansion and maintenance. You'll work across a flexible asset data model, a configurable lifecycle and approval workflow engine, reconciliation against our financial and procurement systems, an ad hoc reporting layer, and a compliance backbone of immutable audit trails, role-based access control, and segregation of duties.

You’ll work closely with the infrastructure teams responsible for managing our fixed assets — understanding how they receive, deploy, move, and retire equipment — and translate those operational and technical requirements into reliable software. You'll also partner with accounting, audit, tax, finance, and procurement teams to ensure the system meets their controls and reporting needs, and you'll help establish the processes by which the team manages a rapidly growing and increasingly complex set of assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and extend the systems that track, govern, and report on Anthropic's infrastructure assets: the asset data model, lifecycle state machine, approval workflow engine, reconciliation pipelines, and reporting layer
• Build durable, well-tested integrations with our financial and procurement systems as the bidirectional system of record for fixed asset events
• Implement and maintain the compliance surface: immutable event logging, tamper-evident audit trails, role-based access control with least-privilege defaults, segregation of duties, and period-close controls
• Build internal-facing UI for accounting, audit, and infrastructure teams to receive, transfer, and dispose of assets and to run reconciliations and reports without engineering involvement
• Work closely with infrastructure teams responsible for managing fixed assets to understand their workflows and translate operational requirements into software
• Partner with accounting, audit, tax, finance, and procurement teams to translate controls and reporting requirements into technical designs and to evolve them as the business changes
• Establish and document processes for asset onboarding, data quality, change management, and controls scoping as the asset base grows

Minimum Qualifications

• Proficiency in a compiled, statically typed language such as Go or Rust, with strong object-oriented design fundamentals
• Front-end web development experience
• Experience designing relational data models and writing SQL for systems with complex entity relationships
• Experience designing and building APIs and service-to-service integrations
• Experience building systems with auditability, access control, or compliance requirements
• Experience translating requirements from non-engineering stakeholders into technical designs
• Strong written and verbal communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Go and TypeScript
• Experience with design tools such as Figma
• Experience building or operating asset lifecycle management, IT asset management, ERP, or fixed-asset systems
• Familiarity with internal controls and audit concepts: audit trails, segregation of duties, change management, access reviews
• Experience integrating financial or procurement systems
• Experience building workflow or approval engines, RBAC systems, or report/query builders
• Experience building and operating internal tools or platforms used by non-engineering teams
• Familiarity with accounting concepts such as capitalization, depreciation, CIP, fixed asset registers, and period close
• Experience with datacenter or network infrastructure operations

Representative projects

• Design the lifecycle state machine that governs asset status transitions (received > in-service > out-of-service > disposed), with configurable approval gates by asset class, value threshold, and event type, and a full audit trail
• Build the reconciliation pipeline that compares the asset register against our financial and procurement systems on a regular cadence, flags variances, and supports manual resolution
• Implement the immutable event log and field-level change history that supports controls evidence collection, with tamper-evident retention
• Build the ad hoc report builder that lets accounting generate a fixed asset register, CIP aging, or monthly reconciliation without engineering involvement
• Design the RBAC and segregation-of-duties model that ensures asset receipt, approval, transfer, and disposal roles are distinct and auditable

Annual Salary

$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! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.