Senior/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

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 as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: 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.