# Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Zürich
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Senior/Staff Security Engineer on Anthropic's Detection and Response team, you will help build and enhance our detection and response capabilities from the ground up. You will work closely with our security and research teams to spot threats and respond to incidents across every layer of Anthropic's technology stack.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead incident response across various domains, including external attacks and insider threats, spanning all layers of Anthropic's technology stack.

- Build and deploy tooling, including tools that use large language models, to improve detection and response to threats.

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

- Review incident response metrics and procedures, driving improvements.

- Collaborate across security and engineering teams.

- Participate 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.

- 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.

- Ability to lead projects with little guidance.

- Ability to quickly pick up new languages and technologies.

## 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.

## Logistics

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role.

- Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

- Visa sponsorship: Available, with efforts made to secure visas for successful candidates.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation and benefits.

- Optional equity donation matching.

- Generous vacation and parental leave.

- Flexible working hours.

- Lovely office space.

## Skills

### Required
- EDR
- SIEM
- SOAR
- cloud environments
- scripting languages like Python
- query languages like SQL
- incident response
- anomaly investigation
- communication and collaboration

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes environments
- threat intelligence
- malware analysis
- infrastructure as code
- forensics
- high-growth startup environment

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