Security Engineer, Detection & Response at Anthropic

Department: Security

Compensation

$300,000 – $405,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Nov 10, 2025

Description

Anthropic is hiring a Detection and Response engineer to lead cybersecurity incident response across external attacks and insider threats, develop detection and response tooling using large language models, create detections and playbooks, improve incident response metrics, and collaborate with security and engineering teams. The role requires an on-call rotation and offers an annual salary of $300,000 to $405,000 USD, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring office presence at least 25% of the time.

Required Skills

Incident Response
Large Language Models
Cloud Operations
Python
SQL
EDR
SIEM
SOAR
Threat Hunting

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and/or experience
Required Previous Experiences: 3+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
Preferred Qualifications: Security experience
Security operations or investigations involving large-scale Kubernetes environments
Proficiency in Python and SQL
Attack behavior analysis and detection prototyping
Threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, detection engineering, or forensics
Experience in a high-growth startup environment
Translation Company Name: Anthropic