Security Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Detection & IR

anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology company in San Francisco is seeking a Security Software Engineer for their Detection Platform team. The role involves building and scaling advanced security analytics infrastructure, implementing data pipelines, and developing ML-powered detection systems. Ideal candidates have 7+ years experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on security and data pipelines. This position offers an annual compensation range of $320,000 - $405,000 USD and may require hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on security, infrastructure and/or data pipelines.
• Track record of building and maintaining internal developer tools or security platforms.
• Strong understanding of data processing pipelines and experience working with large‑scale logging systems.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered platform for detection development to incident response.
• Design scalable data pipelines for processing security telemetry.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring in the Security team.

Skills

Experience in software engineering focused on security

Strong data processing skills

Ability to write maintainable and secure code in Python

Outstanding communication skills

Experience with CI/CD and detection-as-code workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

A leading AI technology company in San Francisco is seeking a Security Software Engineer for their Detection Platform team. The role involves building and scaling advanced security analytics infrastructure, implementing data pipelines, and developing ML-powered detection systems. Ideal candidates have 7+ years experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on security and data pipelines. This position offers an annual compensation range of $320,000 - $405,000 USD and may require hybrid work arrangement.