Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Location: Zürich, Switzerland; hybrid work with staff expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Lead incident response across external attacks, insider threats, and all layers of the technology stack.
• Build and deploy detection and response tooling, including tools that use large language models.
• Create and tune detections, playbooks, and workflows for rapid incident response.
• Review incident response metrics and procedures and drive operational improvements.
• Collaborate across security and engineering teams and participate in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team.
• Working knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or similar security tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud environments, operations, and SaaS engineering environments.
• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python and query languages such as SQL.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead projects independently.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• 7+ years of software engineering, detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience.
• Security operations or investigations involving large-scale Kubernetes environments.
• Experience analyzing attack behavior and prototyping high-quality detections.
• Experience with threat intelligence, malware analysis, infrastructure as code, or forensics.
• Experience contributing to a high-growth startup environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, security, engineering, policy, and business teams.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including generous vacation and parental leave.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility.