Security Engineer, Detection & Response
AnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DCPosted 24 February 2026
Job Description
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
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.
Responsibilities:
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
You may be a good fit if you:
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
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
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
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$300,000
$405,000 USD
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you no ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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