Senior Engineering Manager, Panther
Alert & Response Experience
$180-250k
+ Equity
Security monitoring platform for the cloud
Open for applications
Security monitoring platform for the cloud
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-250k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make security teams smarter and faster than attackers.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a leader who combines strong people management skills and B2B product engineering experience within the security domain; SOC automation and XDR
- 5+ years of people management experience leading product engineering teams
- Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineers
- Experience managing cross-disciplinary teams and owning all aspects of people leadership
- Strong partnership skills with recruiting teams to scale headcount effectively
- Experience working in product-sales environments with direct customer exposure
- Experience operating in ambiguous environments and making strategic decisions with incomplete information
- Track record of owning the partnership between Product, Design and Engineering to define vision and roadmap
- Experience owning user-facing product features from conception to delivery
- Experience scaling a team focused on building agentic products and driving ai lead outcomes
- Technical depth to participate in architecture discussions and unblock teams on complex design decisions
- AWS experience preferred (serverless architectures, cloud infrastructure)
- Cybersecurity background is a nice-to-have but not required
- Familiarity with modern engineering stacks (Golang, React, TypeScript, GraphQL) helpful
- Customer-obsessed: You understand that your team's integrations are the first experience customers have with Panther
- Owner mentality: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just outputs
- Team-focused: You prioritize team health, growth, and sustainability alongside delivery
What the job involves
- You'll build and lead Panther’s agentic team focused on AI-powered SOC analyst solutions that sit at the intersection of security and cutting-edge ML engineering
- This is a customer-centric product engineering leadership role where you'll own the execution of our product roadmap, be the bridge between Engineering and Product Management, and you’ll build and lead the team through change alongside our customers, the industry and within the security domain
- We're building autonomous security capabilities for alert triage, interactive chat, detection code generation, and text-to-search, all deeply integrated with Panther's ingestion pipeline
- Lead and grow Panther's AI team — hire, develop, and retain engineers working at the intersection of security and AI, building the capabilities that will define Panther's next chapter as a mature AI SOC platform
- Own the AI team's delivery — drive execution of the roadmap across autonomous alert triage, interactive chat, detection code generation, and text-to-search, balancing velocity with technical quality
- Build Panther's SOAR capabilities using AI infrastructure — lead the team in developing a next-generation Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response solution that leverages Panther's AI infrastructure, MCP integrations, and AI policy framework to automate analyst workflows at scale
- Shape the AI SOC platform strategy — partner with Product and the Director of Engineering to define and evolve the roadmap across critical verticals: agentic triage, MCP-powered integrations, AI policies, and collective intelligence
- Drive technical direction without coding — participate actively in architecture discussions, challenge design decisions, unblock the team on complex problems, and raise the bar on how we build agentic systems, LLM pipelines, and security automation
- Operate with a security-first mindset — collaborate with the broader engineering org on reliability, on-call health, and security practices, ensuring AI features meet the trust and compliance standards Panther's customers expect
- Contribute to engineering-wide leadership — participate in hiring loops, share learnings across teams, and help shape how Panther builds and scales its engineering organization as we grow
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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