Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead incident response across domains, from external attacks to insider threats, spanning all layers of the technology stack
• ▹Build and deploy tooling, including tools that use large language models, to improve how threats are detected and responded to
• ▹Create and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows to respond to incidents quickly
• ▹Review incident response metrics and procedures and drive improvements
• ▹Work across security and engineering teams
• ▹Take part in an on-call rotation

Requirements

• ▹Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
• ▹Working knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or similar security tooling
• ▹Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
• ▹Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
• ▹Proficiency with a scripting language such as Python and query languages such as SQL
• ▹Strong communication and collaboration skills
• ▹Able to lead projects with little guidance
• ▹Able to pick up new languages and technologies quickly

Nice to have

• ▹7+ years of software engineering experience, or 7+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
• ▹Security operations or investigations in large-scale Kubernetes environments
• ▹Experience analyzing attack behavior and prototyping high-quality detections
• ▹Experience with threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, or forensics
• ▹Experience contributing to a high-growth startup environment

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive compensation and benefits
• ▹Optional equity donation matching
• ▹Generous vacation and parental leave
• ▹Flexible working hours
• ▹A lovely office space for collaboration
• ▹Visa sponsorship

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its quickly growing team brings together researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders.