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AnthropicAnthropicSan Francisco, CA

Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Lead detection and response engineering efforts, building tooling and processes to monitor threats, investigate incidents, and coordinate responses across Anthropic's technology stack. Requires 5+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting.

300k – 405k
Hybrid5+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

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
  • Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with security experience a plus OR 5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
  • Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
  • Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to lead projects with little guidance
  • 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
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience performing security operations or investigations involving large-scale Kubernetes environments
  • 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

Skills

PythonSQLEdrSIEMSoarKubernetesCloud SecurityIncident ResponseThreat HuntingDetection Engineering
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