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# Senior Detection and Response Engineer at Anyscale

- **Company:** Anyscale
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/anyscale/4b05512e-a730-422f-aa70-e4b4d2e6a5a0

## Job description

At Anyscale https://www.anyscale.com/, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI https://thenewstack.io/how-ray-a-distributed-ai-framework-helps-power-chatgpt/, Uber https://www.uber.com/blog/horovod-ray/, Spotify https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/02/unleashing-ml-innovation-at-spotify-with-ray/, Instacart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t26ucTy0Rs&list=PLzTswPQNepXmLUiL4F_1VHrPcCz1OeILw&index=23&pp=iAQB, Cruise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0BqvfX_wI&list=PLzTswPQNepXmLUiL4F_1VHrPcCz1OeILw&index=46&pp=iAQB, and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.

With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert.

Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-anyscale-adds-99-million-to-andressen-horowitz-led-funding-round-11661254200 with $250+ million raised to date.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Anyscale's need to detect and respond to security events across its production and corporate environments is growing as the company scales. We're looking for a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to own detection engineering and to lead incident response when it counts, coordinating the response and driving it to resolution.

This is a high-ownership role with real room to shape how detection and response works at Anyscale. You will own the detection pipeline, the response runbooks, and incident response, reporting to the Head of Security and partnering with engineering. This role is based in India.

In your first year, success looks like strong detection coverage across our cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry, a working correlation and alerting pipeline, and incident response runbooks that have been exercised in practice.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own and build detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry.
- Own a centralized correlation and alerting capability that turns telemetry into actionable detections.
- Own incident response: runbooks, escalation paths, and coordination during an incident, across corporate and production environments.
- Drive detection of anomalous activity across the environments we run, including our Kubernetes footprint.
- Tune detections to keep signal high and noise low, and measure detection and response performance such as mean time to detect and respond.
- Run incident retrospectives and feed lessons back into detections and controls.
- Partner with infrastructure security and IT to close gaps surfaced during response.

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- 6+ years in security, with a strong focus on detection engineering and incident response, ideally at a high-growth startup.
- Hands-on experience building detections and correlation across cloud (AWS, Azure), endpoint (EDR), and ideally container and runtime telemetry.
- Experience owning incident response end to end, including leading during live incidents.
- Comfort building and scaling a detection and response capability, not only operating an existing one.
- Sound judgment under pressure and clear communication during incidents.
- Fluency working with engineers and IT to close the gaps that response surfaces.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with SIEM or detection platforms and detection-as-code approaches.
- Familiarity with runtime security tooling such as Upwind or similar.
- Threat hunting or purple-team experience.
- Background in AI or ML platforms or distributed systems.

## About Anyscale

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Anyscale provides a production-grade platform for building, running, and scaling data-intensive AI workloads, powered by the open-source Ray framework.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by prominent venture investors)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA (600 Harrison Street, 4th Floor) and Bangalore, India
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Co-founders include the creators of Ray from UC Berkeley RISELab (names not explicitly listed in provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Distributed Computing
- **Target customers**: AI teams building foundation models, data curation pipelines, batch inference, and serving workloads; B2B enterprise and startups
- **Mission**: Make scalable computing effortless  
  **Vision**: Build the future of distributed computing for AI and ML workflows

## Products & Services
- **[Anyscale Platform](https://www.anyscale.com/platform)**: A managed, production-grade platform that runs Ray clusters across any cloud. Includes developer tooling (Workspaces, managed dashboards), cluster orchestration (Jobs & Services, autoscaling, multi-cloud), governance (SSO, SAML, SCIM, budgets), observability (workload-specific dashboards, lineage tracking), and the fully managed Anyscale Runtime.
- **Ray Open-Source Framework**: Although open source and community-driven, Anyscale is built by the creators of Ray and offers the runtime as the core compute engine for its platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not specified in sources; investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and others (based on investor logos on [about page](https://www.anyscale.com/about)). Ray has exceeded **500 million downloads** and **41K+ GitHub stars**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA (from company website); partners include AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius.
- **Growth Signals**: Employee recommendation rating of **94%**; **4.7 Glassdoor** rating; three offices globally; used by foundation model builders for tasks like embedding generation (80% cheaper), batch inference (3x faster), and training (5x faster).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ray ecosystem**: Anyscale is built and maintained by the original creators of Ray, the most widely adopted open-source AI compute engine, giving them deep technical expertise and influence on the project’s direction.
- **Multi-cloud orchestration**: Run workloads seamlessly across AWS, GCP, Azure, and specialized GPU clouds without cloud-specific rewrites.
- **Fine-grained hardware allocation and GPU pooling**: Dynamic capacity reallocation maximizes GPU utilization and reduces costs.
- **Developer experience**: Simple Python APIs (e.g., `@ray.remote`) and cluster-backed VS Code/Jupyter workspaces enable scaling from a laptop to a data center without code changes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Foundation model training and post-training (RLHF, fine-tuning), multimodal data curation, batch embedding generation, and real-time serving. Emphasis on reducing GPU costs and improving developer velocity through unified governance and observability.
- **Direction for growth**: Expanding multi-cloud orchestration, deepening integrations with third-party libraries (vLLM, SGLang, PyTorch, XGBoost), and enabling teams to “unify and govern every team’s AI workloads across clouds.”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Customer & Community Obsessed,” “LFG” (move fast, push boundaries), “Raise the Bar,” “Take the Longview.”
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Bangalore. In-office meals (lunch and dinner) and commute reimbursement for Bay Area residents.
- **Benefits**:
  - Health, Vision, Dental (95% covered plans)
  - Fertility benefits (up to $12,500 via Kindbody) and 12 weeks paid parental leave
  - Flexible time off
  - $100/month learning and wellness stipend
  - Paid volunteer time off
  - Mental health support (Rula)
- **Engineering culture**: High autonomy, work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure, close connection to open-source community.

## Sources
1. [anyscale.com](https://www.anyscale.com/)
2. [anyscale.com/about](https://www.anyscale.com/about)
3. [anyscale.com/careers](https://www.anyscale.com/careers)
4. [anyscale.com/platform](https://www.anyscale.com/platform)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/anyscale](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/anyscale)

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