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.
About the job
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
Python, SQL, Edr, SIEM, Soar, Kubernetes, Cloud Security, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering
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