Security Engineer, Detection & Response

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.

About the role

At Anthropic, we are pioneering new frontiers in AI that have the potential to greatly benefit society. However, developing advanced AI also comes with risks if not properly safeguarded. We're seeking an exceptional Detection and Response engineer who will be on the frontlines to build solutions to monitor for threats, rapidly investigate incidents, and coordinate response efforts with other teams. In this role you will have the opportunity to shape our security capabilities from the ground up alongside our research and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity incident response efforts covering diverse domains from external attacks to insider threats involving all layers of Anthropic’s technology stack
• Develop and deploy novel tooling that may leverage Large Language Models to enhance detection, investigation, and response capabilities
• Create and optimize detections, playbooks, and workflows to quickly identify and respond to potential incidents
• Review incident response metrics and procedures and drive continuous improvement
• Work cross-functionally with other security and engineering teams
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience (security experience a plus) and/or 5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
• Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
• Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to lead projects with little guidance and to pick up new languages and technologies quickly
• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
• Knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or related security tools
• We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Security operations or investigations involving large-scale Kubernetes environments
• High level of proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL
• Analyzing attack behavior and prototyping high-quality detections
• Threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, detection engineering, or forensics
• Experience contributing to a high-growth startup environment

Compensation

Annual Salary: $300,000 - $405,000 USD

Logistics

• Location-based hybrid policy: we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more office time)
• Participation in an on-call rotation is required
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist where possible
• Deadline to apply: None; applications reviewed on a rolling basis

How we're different

Anthropic emphasizes large-scale, collaborative AI research with strong communication across teams. The organization values impact and conducts frequent research discussions to align on high-impact work.

Notes

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every qualification listed.