Role Overview
The Finance Systems Engineer, Tax role at Anthropic is a foundational technical position based in San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington. This position suits an experienced technologist who understands tax systems and wants to write production code, tooling, and integrations connecting tax engines with billing, enterprise resource planning, and data warehouse systems.
Key Responsibilities
Own tax-related changes within the billing codebase and manage billing-to-tax-engine integrations, incorporating withholding tax considerations.
Lead the accounts payable tax engine implementation across enterprise resource planning connected purchasing flows, covering data migration, integration pipelines, parallel-run reconciliation, electronic invoicing, and go-live validation.
Build and iterate tax-specific internal tooling and products across the full tax stack, including indirect tax reconciliations, provision and research credit data pipelines, transfer pricing datasets, withholding tracking, and exemption tools.
Manage production connection points between the tax infrastructure and central data ingestion layers.
Design and construct Sarbanes-Oxley aware information produced by entity and control-total tooling, such as source-to-target tie-outs and audit-ready evidence pipelines.
Create internal tooling that applies Claude to automate tax workflows and offers non-technical colleagues self-serve access to data and calculations.
Act as the technical owner for vendor implementations and collaborate with billing engineering, data platform, tax, treasury, and product teams.
Requirements
Hands-on background building or owning production integrations against billing platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, or enterprise finance solutions.
Tax-systems fluency in at least one specific domain such as indirect tax engines, corporate tax provision or compliance tooling, withholding, research credit, or transfer pricing systems.
Proficiency in writing production-grade Python with strong code-review and testing discipline.
SQL proficiency capable of building reconciliations and validating data end-to-end.
Experience building or operating Sarbanes-Oxley aware data flows, control totals, or testable pipelines.
Capability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and collaborate directly with cross-functional partners and external vendors.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Nice to Have
Seven or more years of professional experience in tax technology, finance systems engineering, or a closely related discipline.
Track record of owning modifications inside a shared production codebase alongside product engineering teams.
Analytics engineering and warehouse skills utilizing tools like dbt or BigQuery.
Breadth across multiple tax domains including value-added tax, goods and services tax, corporate income tax, and transfer pricing data.
Experience designing internal interfaces for non-technical finance users or building applications leveraging large language models.
Exposure to usage-based, marketplace, or platform billing systems.
Skills and Tools
Python
SQL
dbt
BigQuery
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Tax Engines
Billing Platforms
Salary and Benefits
Annual base salary ranging from $205,000 to $270,000 USD.
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Optional equity donation matching.
Generous parental leave and vacation time.
Flexible working hours.
Office spaces designed for collaborative work.
About the Company
Anthropic operates as a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable artificial intelligence systems that remain safe and beneficial for society. The organization brings together a rapidly expanding team of researchers, engineers, policy specialists, and business leaders who approach artificial intelligence research as an empirical science.
How to Apply
Candidates interested in this position should submit an application directly through the official Anthropic careers page.
