Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

📋 Job Overview

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.

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.

🏢 About Anthropic

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

🎯 The Role

The Detection and Response (D&R) team spots 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

📌 Required 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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

🎁 Benefits

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.