Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Asset Systems

Details

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.

Role overview

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. Finance, accounting, internal audit, and infrastructure teams need a shared, trustworthy view of every asset from purchase through receipt, deployment, transfers, and disposal — with controls, auditability, and reporting required to operate at scale.

You will join the team building the systems to meet that need and own its ongoing expansion and maintenance. You will work on a flexible asset data model, a configurable lifecycle and approval workflow engine, reconciliation against 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 will collaborate closely with infrastructure teams that manage fixed assets and with accounting, audit, tax, finance, and procurement stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend systems that track, govern, and report on infrastructure assets: asset data model, lifecycle state machine, approval workflow engine, reconciliation pipelines, and reporting layer
• Build durable, well-tested integrations with 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 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 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 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

Compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Location-based hybrid policy: currently expect all staff to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time
• Minimum years of experience: will correlate with internal job level requirements for the position
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to help, though sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role/candidate

How to apply

Apply via Anthropic's careers site. The posting includes application questions about relocation, visa sponsorship need, and other standard application fields.