Senior Detections Engineer

The Job

As a Senior Detections Engineer at Panther Labs, you will be part of the Threat Research team focused on building and expanding on our detection capabilities in our product. The Threat Research team is responsible for assessing and analyzing new threats, delivering detection rules and policies, and sharing the research with the broader security community to enable security teams to detect threats in their environments.

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 challenge of protecting large organizations and wanted to build a solution that many teams could use. Panther solves modern security challenges with detection-as-code, a cloud-native architecture, and robust security data lake. Panther’s platform, used by many industry leaders, enables security teams to focus on security, detect attacks, and protect their organizations without 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 $120M, at $1.4 billion-dollar valuation, and is quickly accelerating its mission and employee base across the United States and Greece. Panther’s customers include industry-leading technology companies such as GitLab, Coinbase, and Dropbox, and 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, Move Fast, 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

You will be responsible for:

• Building threat and risk identification capabilities in our product through detection-as-code using Python, utilizing Rules, Policies, Data Models and more. For examples, please see our Github repository here.
• Building support for new Log Types, helping our customers get additional value out of our platform and enabling additional detection-as-code development.
• Updating Rules, Policies, and Log Types to account for any changes in data, ensuring we’re delivering the best possible outcomes for our customers as new detection opportunities arise.

You will not be responsible for:

• Alert triage or analysis of alerts we send to customers. We deliver a platform and product to our customers, not a managed service.

The Requirements

• Proficient with Python in a production/product context
• Experience with Golang in a production/product context a large plus
• Experience with serialization languages such as YAML
• Experience with Git/Github for development workflow
• Experience with ideation, development, and maintenance of detections-as-code for a product is ideal
• Experience with and understanding of the broader threat landscape, with an ability to translate that knowledge into actionable insights and detections-as-code.

The Perks

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO policy, with a minimum requirement of 15 days off per year, as well as observing major US holidays, as well as a 2 -week break, end of year
• 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)

Panther labs is an Equal 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.