Staff Software Engineer, Billing Platform

About the role

Billing is a critical component of Anthropic's revenue model. The team builds and operates the infrastructure that turns product usage into revenue across Anthropic's offerings: Claude.ai, the Developer Platform, Claude Code, and future products.

The ideal candidate will design and ship billing capabilities end to end, including pricing primitives, payment flows, contract and entitlement models, and revenue data pipelines. They will build for correctness first, own the interfaces, make build-vs-buy calls, and drive down the manual work involved in the process.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship billing capabilities end to end
• Build for correctness first
• Own the interfaces
• Make build-vs-buy calls
• Drive down the manual work
• Partner across the company

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
• A track record of shipping in fast-moving environments where the requirements shift under you and you still land something correct and maintainable
• Care about correctness and data integrity as first-class design concerns
• Enjoy cross-functional work
• Experience with enterprise commerce, CPQ, quote-to-cash, contract management, or the operational side of B2B billing
• Experience with enterprise commerce, CPQ, quote-to-cash, contract management, or the operational side of B2B billing
• Direct experience integrating or extending third-party billing and payment platforms
• Experience with enterprise commerce, CPQ, quote-to-cash, contract management, or the operational side of B2B billing
• Experience with enterprise commerce, CPQ, quote-to-cash, contract management, or the operational side of B2B billing

Qualifications

• Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• 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

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Pay

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000—$405,000 USD.

Schedule

We have a 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.