Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Anthropic; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 255,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research company in the United Kingdom is seeking an exceptional Detection and Response Engineer. This role involves leading incident response efforts, developing AI tooling for threat detection, and collaborating across engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years in detection engineering and a solid understanding of cloud environments. The position offers a competitive salary of £255,000-£325,000 and a hybrid work policy, requiring office presence 25% of the time.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Equity donation matching

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, security experience a plus.
• 5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations.
• Experience in a SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity Incident Response efforts.
• Develop and deploy novel tooling leveraging Large Language Models.
• Create and optimize detections and workflows.
• Work cross-functionally with other security and engineering teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Detection engineering

Incident response

Threat hunting

Communication skills

Cloud environments

Kubernetes

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

EDR

SIEM

SOAR

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

At Anthropic, we are pioneering new frontiers in AI that have the potential to greatly benefit society. However, developing advanced AI also comes with risks if not properly safeguarded. That's why we are seeking an exceptional Detection and Response engineer that will be on the frontlines to build solutions to monitor for threats, rapidly investigate incidents, and coordinate response efforts with other teams. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape our security capabilities from the ground up alongside our world‑class research and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity Incident Response efforts covering diverse domains from external attacks to insider threats involving all layers of Anthropic's technology stack
• Develop and deploy novel tooling that may leverage Large Language Models to enhance detection, investigation, and response capabilities
• Create and optimize detections, playbooks, and workflows to quickly identify and respond to potential incidents
• Review Incident Response metrics and procedures and drive continuous improvement
• Work cross functionally with other security and engineering teams
• Note: This position will require participation in an on‑call rotation

You may be a good fit if you:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with security experience a plus and/or
• 5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
• A solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
• Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• An ability to lead projects with little guidance
• The ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly
• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
• Knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or related security tools

Strong candidates may also have experience with:

• Experience performing security operations or investigations involving large‑scale Kubernetes environments
• A high level of proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL
• Experience analyzing attack behavior and prototyping high quality detections
• Experience with threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, detection engineering, or forensics
• Experience contributing to a high growth startup environment

Deadline to apply

None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Annual Salary

£255,000-£325,000 GBP

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
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 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.

How we're different

We believe that the highest‑impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large‑scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest‑impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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