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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform

Panther LabsUnited StatesOnsite
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The Job


As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based infrastructure and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. You will work close with other product teams to ensure efficient and reliable deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud applications.

The Company


Panther is a cybersecurity company with the mission of detecting any breach, anywhere. The company was founded by security practitioners that lived through the difficulty of trying to protect large organizations and wanting to build a solution that many teams could use. Panther solves modern security problems with detection-as-code, a cloud-native architecture, and a robust security data lake. Panther’s platform, used by many industry innovators, enables security teams to focus on security, detect attacks, and protect their organizations without the prohibitive overhead or excessive operational costs.Backed by Coatue Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, S28 Capital, Snowflake Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, and Innovation Endeavors, Panther has raised $140M and is driving innovation disrupting the cyber security space.

Panther's customers include industry-leading technology companies such as Figma, Gusto, Coinbase, and Dropbox, most of them being mid-large enterprises and they are very much modern technology cloud-forward companies. The company was featured for a second year in a row on EnterpriseTech30's startup list, most as recently as #6 on the list of mid-stage, emerging technology companies!Panther is a remote-first company with a culture of flexibility, written documentation, open company communication, and collaboration. Our values guide our every move: Be an Owner, Create Customer Love, and Take Care of the Team. We believe that by building a diverse group of remote individuals, we can push forward our mission and create a rewarding, inclusive, and fun work environment for our entire team.

The Responsibilities


  • Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, and secure cloud-based services, promoting efficiency and self-service principles
  • Work close with development teams and fellow platform engineers to address critical issues
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment, empowering engineering teams
  • Provide engineers visibility into their services via metrics, tracing, logs and analytics
  • Provide guidance to engineers on how to best utilize our observability systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected

The Requirements


  • 4+ years of experience in an Infrastructure/DevOps role in an AWS cloud environment
  • 4+ years of experience writing production code in either Golang or Python
  • Understanding of fundamental principles of object-oriented software design, development, and architecture is required
  • Understanding of DevOps practices and experience working with CI/CD and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
  • Experience in operating observability and logging systems at scale (ex. Datadog, Sentry, etc.)
  • Preferred candidates will be located in EST timezone

The Perks


  • Equity
  • Unlimited PTO policy, with a minimum requirement of 15 days off per year, observing major US holidays, as well as an end of the year break
  • Latest tech equipment & budget for your customized tech needs
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401k program 
  • Remote-friendly
  • Opportunities to attend industry conferences  (remote or in-person, and in conjunction with our in-person health and safety policy)
  • Annual company off-sites in awesome locations (in conjunction with our in-person health and safety policy)

Cash compensation range: $140,000 - $180,000 USD Annually


The cash compensation above includes base salary and on-target commission for employees in eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full-time Pantherinos are eligible to participate in our equity plan to receive Incentive Stock Options (ISO). Individual compensation packages are based on a few factors unique to each candidate, including their location, experience, and expertise, and may vary from the above-mentioned range.


Panther labs is anEqual Opportunity Employer. The Company prohibits discrimination and harassment on the basis of: race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, religious creed, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other status protected by law. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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Life at Panther Labs

Panther is a serverless, security analytics platform built for cloud-focused security teams. We are a security and engineering-first company led by Airbnb and AWS alumni. Our roots come from building tools at some of the largest companies in the world to solve security issues at scale. We're on a mission to help security teams detect and respond to breaches at cloud-scale. Panther Benefits: - Analyze critical security data in real-time for quick feedback - Craft detections as Python code tailored to fit the needs of your organization - Store your logs to a security data lake for high scale investigations over Petabytes of data - Flexible SaaS deployment options for low ops overhead on your team - Open-source and trusted by the security community Panther Labs is headquartered in San Francisco with a globally distributed workforce. Our customers include GitLab, Cedar, Canva, Earnin, Scribd, Figma, among others. For more information, visit www.runpanther.io and follow us at @panther__labs on Twitter.
Thrive Here & What We Value- RemoteFriendly- Unlimited PTO Policy with minimum requirement of 15 days off per year, observing major CAN holidays, as well as an end of the year break- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage- Annual Company OffSites in Awesome Locations- Opportunities to Attend Industry Conferences (Remote or InPerson)- 401k Program- Values guide every move: Be an Owner, Create Customer Love, and Take Care of the Team- Belief that by building a diverse group of remote individuals, we can push forward our mission and create a rewarding, inclusive, and fun work environment for our entire team
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