Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The team is early-stage, so you'll help build our detection and response capabilities from the ground up and work closely with our security and research teams.

What it asks for · 8

• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
• Working knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or similar security tooling
• A 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

Also a plus

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, or 7+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
• Security operations or investigations involving 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

What the job covers

• Lead incident response across a range of domains, from external attacks to insider threats, spanning all layers of Anthropic's technology stack
• Build and deploy tooling, including tools that use large language models, to improve how we detect and respond to threats
• Create and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows to catch and 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

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Words the posting leans on

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