Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Zürich, CHFull-TimeSeniorSoftware Engineering

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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 Anthropic

  • 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 have

  • 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 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

How we're different

  • We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
  • The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Job Summary

CompanyAnthropic
LocationZürich, CH
TypeFull-Time
LevelSenior
DomainSoftware Engineering