Security Engineer Detection and Response

@ Anthropic

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our team of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders work together to build beneficial AI systems that are safe and socially responsible.

Role Overview

The Security Engineer Detection and Response will be on the frontlines to build solutions that monitor for threats, investigate incidents, and coordinate response efforts. You will shape security capabilities alongside world-class research and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity Incident Response efforts across diverse domains.
• Develop and deploy novel tooling that leverages new technologies.
• Create and optimize detections, playbooks, and workflows.
• Review Incident Response metrics and procedures for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security and engineering teams.
• Participate in an on-call rotation as required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience or 5+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting.
• Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive and independent project leadership.
• Experience with EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or related security tools.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in large-scale Kubernetes environments.
• High proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Proven record in analyzing attack behavior and building high quality detections.
• Exposure to threat intelligence, malware analysis, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience in a high growth startup environment.

Additional Information

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, and Anthropic supports visa sponsorship when possible. A hybrid work policy is in place with an expectation to work from an office at least 25% of the time.

Benefits & Culture

Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours in a collaborative office environment.

Key skills/competency

• Incident Response
• Detection Engineering
• Cybersecurity
• Cloud Operations
• Tooling Development
• Collaboration
• Python
• SQL
• Kubernetes
• SIEM/EDR