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Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC Full Time USD 300,000 - 405,000 p.a. Sep 17, 2026

About the Job

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 syst...

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 moni...

Key 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
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
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

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