Anthropic
Security Engineer, Detection & Response
About this role
Anthropic is hiring a Security Engineer to build detection and response capabilities that safeguard their AI systems. You'll lead incident investigations across their infrastructure, develop innovative security tooling, and work closely with research and engineering teams to protect against external attacks and insider threats.
What you'll do
- Lead cybersecurity incident response efforts covering external attacks, insider threats, and all technology layers
- Develop and deploy detection tools that may leverage Large Language Models for investigation and response
- Create detections, playbooks, and workflows to identify and respond to incidents quickly
- Review metrics and procedures to drive continuous improvement in incident response
- Collaborate cross-functionally with security and engineering teams
- Participate in on-call rotation for incident response
What they're looking for
- Incident response and threat hunting (5+ years preferred)
- Software engineering experience (3+ years preferred)
- Cloud environment operations and security
- EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or similar security tools
- Python and SQL proficiency
- Kubernetes and large-scale infrastructure security
- Threat intelligence and malware analysis
- Attack analysis and forensics
Benefits
- Competitive salary: $300,000–$405,000 USD annually
- Visa sponsorship available with immigration legal support
- Hybrid work policy (minimum 25% office time)
- Work on pioneering AI safety projects with world-class teams
- Opportunity to shape security capabilities from the ground up
- Rolling application review with no deadline
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Anthropic
Anthropic builds Claude, an AI assistant, and is hiring for engineering roles across infrastructure, data systems, and security that support both AI research operations and the company's internal technology needs. The company seeks infrastructure engineers, systems integrators, data scientists, and security specialists to build production-scale systems for training data pipelines, financial operations, developer productivity measurement, research infrastructure, and server firmware security.
- Website
- anthropic.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience leading incident response efforts. What types of incidents have you handled, and how did you coordinate with other teams during investigation and remediation?
- Describe your experience with detection engineering and creating detections/playbooks. What SIEM, EDR, or SOAR tools have you used, and how did you optimize them for your environment?