Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC · Security · listed November 10, 2025

The shape of it

Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
3–5 years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$300,000 – $405,000 USD
Requirements listed
9
Length
970 words

In the posting’s own words

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 monitor for threats, rapidly investigate incidents, and coordinate response efforts with other teams. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape our security capabilities from the ground up alongside our world-class research and security teams.

What it asks for · 9

  • 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

Also a plus

  • 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

What the job covers

  • 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

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Security7×
Languages
  • Python
  • SQL
Cloud & infra
  • Kubernetes
Go to market
  • SaaS
Models & research
  • LLM
Product & design
  • Prototyping
Ways of working
  • On-call

Words the posting leans on

  • experience10×
  • security7×
  • detection6×
  • incident6×
  • response6×
  • engineering5×
  • threat4×
  • incident response3×
  • languages3×
  • attack2×
  • capabilities2×
  • detection engineering2×
  • exceptional2×
  • investigation2×
  • involving2×
  • lead2×

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