Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

EngineersOfAI; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Incident Response Engineer to lead incident response across multiple domains and help build detection and response capabilities from the ground up. You will collaborate with security and engineering teams to deploy tooling and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows for rapid incident handling.

The role requires experience with security incidents, cloud operations, and scripting (Python) with SQL query skills.

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.

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

Job description

About Anthropic

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.

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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely