Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

About the role

As Anthropic's models grow more capable, so does the interest of people who want to attack or misuse them. The Detection and Response (D&R) team spots those threats and responds to incidents across every layer of Anthropic's technology stack.

The team is early-stage, so you'll help build our detection and response capabilities from the ground up and work closely with our security and research teams.

Key responsibilities

Lead incident response across a range of domains, from external attacks to insider threats, spanning all layers of Anthropic's technology stack

Build and deploy tooling, including tools that use large language models, to improve how we detect and respond to threats

Create and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows to catch and respond to incidents quickly

Review incident response metrics and procedures, and drive improvements

Work across security and engineering teams

Take part in an on-call rotation

Minimum qualifications

Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team

Working knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or similar security tooling

A solid understanding of cloud environments and operations

Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment

Proficiency with a scripting language such as Python and query languages such as SQL

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Able to lead projects with little guidance

Able to pick up new languages and technologies quickly

Preferred qualifications

7+ years of software engineering experience, or 7+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience

Security operations or investigations involving large-scale Kubernetes environments

Experience analyzing attack behavior and prototyping high-quality detections

Experience with threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, or forensics

Experience contributing to a high-growth startup environment