Senior Backend Software Engineer - Context & Data

Panther is building the AI SOC platform that helps security teams detect and respond faster than attackers. The Context & Data Experience team owns the foundational layer that makes everything else possible — getting the right data in, making it trustworthy, and surfacing environment context that powers every alert, hunt, and investigation. This team helps customers:

• Get all their security data into Panther quickly and reliably — from cloud, on-prem, and third-party sources.
• Maximize the value of that data through schemas, transformations, and baselines that make it high-signal.
• Understand their environment continuously — cloud misconfigurations, asset context, and behavioral baselines that make detections smarter.

This role is about making data pipelines feel invisible, context feel instant, and security coverage feel complete.

You'll join the Context & Data Experience team and partner closely with engineers and PMs to build the backend systems that power data ingestion, enrichment, and environment context at Panther. This is a backend role focused on the foundational infrastructure that every detection, alert, and investigation depends on.

• Strong backend engineering experience building production services and APIs
• Proficiency in Go and Python
• Experience designing systems with clear trade-offs around latency, correctness, and reliability

• Security domain experience, especially with SOC workflows, alerting, logging, detection engineering, or related platforms

• Ownership: You drive problems end-to-end and care about outcomes
• Collaboration: You work effectively across product and engineering to deliver a cohesive experience
• Pragmatism: You know when to simplify and when to invest in deeper architecture

• →Build and improve backend services that power data ingestion, enrichment, and environment context workflows
• →Design and ship end-to-end backend features across APIs, data pipelines, and integrations
• →Own the reliability, scalability, and correctness of the systems that every detection, alert, and investigation depends on
• →Partner with engineers and PMs to turn ambiguous problems into shipped product
• →Raise the bar for engineering quality through design reviews, mentorship, and technical leadership

Panther is a cybersecurity company with the mission of detecting any breach, anywhere. Panther solves modern security problems with detection-as-code, a cloud-native architecture, and a robust security data lake. Panther’s platform enables security teams to focus on security, detect attacks, and protect their organizations without prohibitive overhead.

Panther is backed by Coatue Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, S28 Capital, Snowflake Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, and Innovation Endeavors, and has raised $140M. Customers include Figma, Gusto, Coinbase, and Dropbox.

Panther is remote-first, with a culture of flexibility, written documentation, open communication, and collaboration. Our values guide our every move: Create Customer Love, Be an Owner, and Take Care of the Team.

We recognize that AI tools can enhance productivity and support high-quality work. Candidates are welcome to use AI tools for assistance when preparing application materials and completing take-home assignments. If AI use is not permitted for a specific assessment, we will indicate that clearly in the instructions. During live interviews, we ask that candidates not use AI tools to generate or supply real-time answers. This includes reading from AI-generated responses or prompts during conversational, behavioral, or technical discussions. These conversations are designed to understand your individual thinking process, problem-solving approach, and ability to communicate your ideas.

We also use AI tools to support our recruiting processes; hiring decisions are made by our team, not AI.

Reasonable Accommodations
We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all candidates. If you require the use of an AI-based tool or any other assistive technology as a reasonable accommodation for a disability or medical condition, please notify us prior to your interview. We will engage in an interactive process to determine what arrangements are appropriate for your situation. Accommodation requests are handled individually and in accordance with applicable law.