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Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. As the company's models grow more capable, so does the interest of adversaries seeking to attack or misuse them. The Detection and Response (D&R) team is responsible for spotting threats and responding to incidents across every layer of Anthropic's technology stack.
This is an early-stage team role where you will help build detection and response capabilities from the ground up while working closely with security and research teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead incident response across multiple domains, from external attacks to insider threats, spanning all layers of Anthropic's technology stack
- Build and deploy tooling, including tools that leverage large language models, to improve threat detection and response
- Create and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows to catch and respond to incidents quickly
- Review incident response metrics and procedures, driving continuous improvements
- Collaborate across security and engineering teams
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Minimum Qualifications:
- 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
- Ability to lead projects with little guidance
- Ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience in a field relevant to the role.
Workplace: Hybrid with expectation of at least 25% in-office time at Anthropic's offices. Visa sponsorship available.
