Staff AI Engineer, Panther
SOC Agent Platform
$180-240k
+ Equity
Security monitoring platform for the cloud
Open for applications
Security monitoring platform for the cloud
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-240k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make security teams smarter and faster than attackers.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of embeddings, vector databases, RAG, and agentic engineering frameworks
- Strong software development skills with the ability to build production-grade systems
- Experience with ML/AI agent architectures and feedback loops
- Security expertise with hands-on knowledge of SOC workflows, alert triage, and threat analysis
- Understanding of XDR platforms and security automation challenges
- Passion for solving security team operational problems through intelligent automation
- Customer-obsessed: You thrive on engaging directly with customers to listen, learn, and build innovation alongside them
- Startup mentality: You're comfortable with ambiguity and excited to build novel solutions in a fast-moving environment
- Product vision: You can translate technical capabilities into meaningful SOC team outcomes
What the job involves
- You'll work directly with our Founder & CTO to build AI-powered SOC analyst solutions that sit at the intersection of security and cutting-edge ML and agentic engineering
- This is a customer-centric product engineering role where you'll engage directly with security teams to understand their pain points and build agent-based tools that solve real problems
- 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
- This role is ideal for engineers who combine strong development skills with security domain knowledge in SOC automation and XDR
- Build and enhance autonomous AI agents spanning alert triage, interactive chat, detection code generation, and text-to-search capabilities
- Create feedback loops between agents that integrate seamlessly with Panther's ingestion pipeline
- Develop our collective intelligence framework that enables agents to learn from observations and improve accuracy over time
- Partner directly with customers to understand SOC team workflows and validate agent effectiveness
- Expand our current suite of 4 SOC agents and design new agent capabilities that extend SOC team capacity
- Drive measurable impact: reduce triage time significantly and enable security teams to handle exponentially more data with existing resources
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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