Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

About the role

As Anthropic's models become more capable, so does the interest of attackers. 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 will help build its detection and response capabilities from the ground up and work closely with security and research teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead incident response across a range of domains, from external attacks to insider threats, spanning all layers of the technology stack.
• Build and deploy tooling, including tools that use large language models, to improve threat detection and response.
• 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 and take part in an on-call rotation.

Required profile

• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team.
• Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations.
• Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment.
• Able to lead projects with little guidance and to pick up new languages and technologies quickly.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience in a field relevant to the role.
• Hybrid policy: currently expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time; visa sponsorship is offered but not guaranteed for every role.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR or similar security tooling.
• Proficiency with a scripting language such as Python and query languages such as SQL.
• Preferred: 7+ years of software engineering, detection engineering, incident response or threat hunting experience; large-scale Kubernetes security operations; threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code or forensics; high-growth startup experience.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.
• A collaborative office in San Francisco.