Staff Software Engineer, Panther
Platform
$162-207k
+ Equity
Security monitoring platform for the cloud
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Security monitoring platform for the cloud
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$162-207k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make security teams smarter and faster than attackers.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated ability to deliver value in highly ambiguous problem spaces
- Exceptional architecture experience solving complex and edge-case problems across product, platform, cloud, and/or security domains
- Proven experience driving business requirements through deployment with measurable impact
- Deep expertise in backend system design and distributed systems
- Own and evolve our CI/CD automation and cloud infrastructure strategy to improve reliability, scalability, and security
- Best-in-class CI/CD practices and experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Experience operating observability and logging systems at scale (for example, Datadog and Sentry)
- Experience in an Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or DevOps-focused role in an AWS cloud environment
- Expertise writing production code in Golang or Python
- Strong fundamentals in software design, development, and architecture
- Ownership and initiative in ambiguous problem spaces
- Strong product and stakeholder judgment, including first-principles decision making
- Mentorship and technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and coaching
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) on the Platform team, you will play a critical role building and operating cloud-native backend and platform infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and reliable by designing, implementing, and evolving our backend systems, CI/CD automation, and cloud infrastructure
- You will operate with broad technical ownership across multiple domains, driving initiatives end-to-end from architecture design through production deployment
- You will lead backend projects on a team of 5 (without direct reports), influence architectural direction, and partner closely with cross-functional peers to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems
- You will drive meaningful technical outcomes across CI/CD, automation, and service operations, partnering closely with product and engineering teams to ensure teams can ship confidently.You will support the backend platform to design, implement, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- This role requires strong technical ownership, clear communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while raising the bar for engineering practices
- Lead architecture and technical decision making, including edge cases across product, public cloud, and the security domain
- Drive initiatives end-to-end — from ambiguous business requirements through implementation, deployment, and measurable outcomes
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure cloud-based services with an emphasis on efficiency and self-service
- Apply first-principles thinking to guide architectural decisions and manage stakeholder trade-offs
- Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and course correction, and how to use observability systems to operate services with confidence
- Establish and elevate engineering best practices across backend development, DevOps, and infrastructure
- Deliver business impact by solving ambiguous problems across the company and, when needed, with customers
- Partner closely with development teams and fellow platform engineers to address critical issues
- Build automation tooling to streamline provisioning, configuration, and deployment & Improve service visibility via metrics, tracing, logs, and analytics
Our take
The increasing adoption of cloud platforms has made it more and more difficult for security teams to monitor all aspects of their business. Panther solves this problem with its scalable solution specifically tailored for cloud-first companies.
Panther's platform acts as an alternative to traditional SIEMs, which have failed to keep up with the shift towards cloud services. Panther was founded by security engineering experts from companies such as Airbnb and AWS. This has allowed the company to keep developers' and security teams' needs and challenges in mind. And in 2021, the company raised an impressive $120M in funding, making it a unicorn. This is a testament to Panther's growing impact in the cloud security sector.
Panther's main challenge will be competing with rival cloud security SIEMs like LogRhythm and QRadar. However, Panther's ongoing funding success, strategic partnerships and growing roster of enterprise clients (which now includes AWS and Dropbox) indicate that the company is gathering further momentum.
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Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage: Comprehensive medical plans for employees and families, with dental and vision benefits included.
- Unlimited PTO: Unlimited PTO with recommended 15-day minimum, plus up to 12 weeks paid leave for family care.
- Performance incentives: Every Panther can share in our success through individual and company-wide performance incentives.
- Mental health support: Free therapy sessions, care navigation, and 24/7 EAP resources for you and your family.
- Financial security: Automatic 401(k) enrollment, company-paid life insurance, and long-term disability coverage.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Naglieri
(Founder & CTO)Jack previously spent nearly 3 years at Airbnb as a Senior Security Enginer and Security Engineering Manager. Prior to that, he spent over 3 years at Yahoo! aws a Security Analyst and Security Engineer.
William H. Lowe
(CEO)William joined Panther in 2020 as Head of Business Operations, moving into the role of VP of Customer Success in 2021, COO in 2022 and CEO in 2024. Prior to Panther, he spent 8 years at Gluu as a Director of Marketing/Operations.
Julian Giuca
(CPO)Prior to joining panther in 2025, Julian was the CEO of Datable.io. Before tha, he spent nearly 12 years at New Relic, joining as a Senior Software Engineer before moving into the role of Principal Engineer, Product GM & Principal Software Engineer and finally Senior Director of Product Management.
Shannon King
(CMO)Prior to joining panther in 2026, Shannon was a VP of Marketing at Stigg and Palantir Technologies. She also worked as a Director of Demand Generation and served as the Interim Head of Marketing at Sourcegraph.
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