Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsite$300k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead incident response across Anthropic’s full technology stack.
- Build novel detection tooling leveraging large language models.
- Shape security capabilities from the ground up with research teams.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A proactive security practitioner with incident response instincts who thrives leading ambiguous investigations and collaborating across teams to safeguard advanced AI systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- 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
- 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 equivalent combination of education and experience
- Participation in an on-call rotation
- remote policy
- Expected in office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas but not for every role and candidate
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google