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Security Software Engineer: Detection Platform Infrastructure
| Company | Anthropic |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $320000 – $405000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on security, infrastructure and/or data pipelines
- Strong understanding of data processing pipelines and experience working with large-scale logging systems
- Ability to write maintainable and secure code in Python
- Experience with test-driven software development and/or CI/CD (plus for direct experience with Detection-as-code workflows)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with query optimization for large datasets
- Experience with building stable and scalable services on cloud infrastructure and serverless architectures
- Ability to lead technical projects with minimal guidance
- Outstanding communication skills, translating technical concepts effectively across all organizational levels
- Strong systems thinking with ability to identify and mitigate risks in complex environments
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing security telemetry across our rapidly growing infrastructure
- Build and optimize ML-powered detection systems, including user behavior analytics (UEBA) and anomaly detection capabilities
- 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
- Develop systems that leverage Claude and other ML models to enhance our detection and response 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building security tooling from the ground up
- Background in implementing security monitoring solutions (SIEM, log aggregation, EDR)
- Background in detection engineering or security operations
- Experience with SOAR platform/automation development
- Experience with data lake / Database architecture
- Experience with API design and internal platform creation
- Track record of applying ML/AI to security problems
- Experience scaling security operations in a high-growth environment
