Impact Careers Full-time

Engineering Manager, Detection and Response

Anthropic

Posted

Jan 20, 2026

Location

USA

Type

Full-time

Compensation

$405000 - $485000

Mission

What you will drive

  • Manage and grow a high-performing Detection and Response team, planning strategy and hiring to support Anthropic's rapid growth and unique AI safety requirements
  • Navigate prioritization in a fast-paced frontier environment, balancing operational demands with building innovative, scalable solutions for the future
  • Collaborate across security engineering teams to build comprehensive prevention, observability, detection, and response capabilities throughout the security lifecycle
  • Facilitate development of scalable, AI-leveraged Detection and Response solutions that enable self-service observability and detection capabilities across Anthropic

Impact

The difference you'll make

This role creates positive change by building comprehensive security observability, detection lifecycle, and security incident response programs that help ensure AI systems are safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

  • 10+ years building detection and response capabilities in a cloud-native organization
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of building and scaling security teams
  • Deep understanding of security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and forensics best practices
  • Experienced in securing complex cloud environments (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP) with modern detection technologies

Benefits

What's in it for you

  • Competitive compensation: $405,000-$485,000 USD annual salary
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration

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Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.