Senior Detection & Response Security Engineer – Hybrid

VulnU; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Visa sponsorship

Parental leave (22 weeks)

Flexible PTO

Retirement match

Learning budget

Home-office stipend

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Senior/Staff Security Engineer for Detection & Response in Zürich. You will lead incident response across multiple domains, build tooling (including ML-driven components) to enhance threat detection, and craft detections, playbooks, and workflows for rapid response.

This role requires partnering with security and engineering teams and participating in on-call rotations. You should have strong experience with EDR/SIEM/SOAR, cloud environments, and Python/SQL; a Bachelor’s

Qualifications

• Experience handling security incidents and investigations as part of a team.
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python) and SQL.
• Knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response across diverse domains and stack layers.
• Build and deploy tooling, including ML/LLM-driven components, to improve threat detection and response.
• Create and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows for rapid containment.
• Review incident response metrics and drive process improvements.
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Incident response

EDR/SIEM/SOAR

Cloud environments

Python scripting

SQL querying

Cross-team collaboration

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Senior/Staff Security Engineer for Detection & Response in Zürich. You will lead incident response across multiple domains, build tooling (including ML-driven components) to enhance threat detection, and craft detections, playbooks, and workflows for rapid response.

This role requires partnering with security and engineering teams and participating in on-call rotations. You should have strong experience with EDR/SIEM/SOAR, cloud environments, and Python/SQL; a Bachelor’s