Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response Platform

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DCOn-site 2mo ago

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

We're seeking an exceptional engineer to join Anthropic's Detection Platform team to build and scale our next-generation security analytics infrastructure. In this role, you'll architect and implement data pipelines that process massive amounts of security telemetry, develop ML-powered detection systems, and create innovative solutions that leverage Claude to transform security operations.

Responsibilities:

Build AI-powered platform responsible for all aspects of D&R capabilities from detection development to incident response
Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing security telemetry across our rapidly growing infrastructure
Architect solutions for storing and efficiently querying large volumes of security-relevant data
Create rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts for new security tooling and analytics capabilities
Work closely with security and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions
Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and growth of the Security team
Participate in on-call shifts

You may be a good fit if you:

7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on security, infrastructure and/or data pipelines
Track record of building and maintaining internal developer tools or security platforms
Strong understanding of data processing pipelines and experience working with large-scale logging systems
Experience with:
- Test-driven software development and/or CI/CD (plus for direct experience with Detection-as-code workflows)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Query optimization for large datasets

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