Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is looking for an exceptional Detection and Response engineer to join their team in San Francisco. This role is pivotal for developing solutions to monitor threats, investigate incidents, and coordinate response efforts. Ideal candidates will have 3+ years of software engineering experience and 5+ years in detection engineering or incident response.

The position requires strong collaboration skills and a solid understanding of cloud operations, with a competitive salary range of $300,000 - $405,000.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, security experience is a plus.
• 5+ years of detection engineering or incident response experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud environments.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Software engineering experience

Security experience

Cloud environments

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Ability to lead projects

Incident response experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

SQL

EDR

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC

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.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings “OTE” range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$300,000 - $405,000 USD

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.

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.