Anthropic

Security Engineer: Detection Platform Infrastructure

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over 1 year ago

Base Salary

$320k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable pipelines for ingesting and processing security telemetry.
  • Build and optimize ML-powered detection systems, including UEBA and anomaly detection.
  • Architect storage and query solutions for large volumes of security-relevant data.
  • Prototype new security tooling and analytics capabilities.
  • Develop systems using Claude and other ML models to improve detection and response.
  • Partner with security and infrastructure teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to Security team hiring and growth.
  • Participate in on-call shifts.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of software engineering experience focused on security, infrastructure, and/or data pipelines.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Track record building and maintaining internal developer tools or security platforms and large-scale logging or data-processing pipelines.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation and with query optimization for large datasets.
  • Experience building stable, scalable services on cloud infrastructure and serverless architectures.
  • Ability to write maintainable and secure Python code.
  • Experience translating security-team requirements into technical solutions and leading technical projects with minimal guidance.
  • Strong technical leadership, systems thinking, communication, risk-management, code-review, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience includes building security tooling, SIEM, log aggregation, EDR, detection engineering, security operations, SOAR automation, data lake or database architecture, API design, internal platforms, and applying ML or AI to security problems.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $320,000–$405,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration lawyer support.
  • Optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office space.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data EngineeringML EngineeringSecurity
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About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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