Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response at Anthropic
Switzerland
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on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship
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Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate incident response across external attacks, insider threats and infrastructure/ML layers.
- Build, deploy and maintain detection tooling and automation (including LLM‑assisted tools) to reduce detection and response time.
- Create, tune and maintain detections, playbooks and response workflows; validate with real incident scenarios.
- Investigate anomalies, perform forensic analysis and produce clear incident reports and remediation plans.
- Review incident metrics and procedures; iterate on playbooks, runbooks and telemetry coverage.
- Collaborate closely with security, engineering and research teams; participate in on‑call rotation and major incident response.
Requirements:
- Proven experience handling security incidents and conducting investigations as part of a detection & response team.
- Practical knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR or similar security tooling and alerting workflows.
- Strong understanding of cloud environments and operations, plus SaaS security practices.
- Proficiency in a scripting language (Python) and query languages (SQL) for detection development and investigation.
- Good communication skills and experience working with engineering teams to remediate issues.
- Able to lead projects with minimal supervision and learn new tools and languages quickly.
Preferred (concise):
- ~7+ years in detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting or equivalent software engineering experience.
- Large‑scale Kubernetes security, malware analysis, threat intelligence, forensics or infrastructure‑as‑code security experience.