Staff Software Engineer - Platform

The Mission

As a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) on the Platform team, you will play a critical role building and operating cloud-native backend and platform infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and reliable by designing, implementing, and evolving our backend systems, CI/CD automation, and cloud infrastructure. You will operate with broad technical ownership across multiple domains, driving initiatives end-to-end from architecture design through production deployment.

The Team + Role

You will lead backend projects on a team of 5 (without direct reports), influence architectural direction, and partner closely with cross-functional peers to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems. You will drive meaningful technical outcomes across CI/CD, automation, and service operations, partnering closely with product and engineering teams to ensure teams can ship confidently.You will support the backend platform to design, implement, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure and deployment pipelines. This role requires strong technical ownership, clear communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while raising the bar for engineering practices.

What You'll Need

Technical Expertise:

• Demonstrated ability to deliver value in highly ambiguous problem spaces
• Exceptional architecture experience solving complex and edge-case problems across product, platform, cloud, and/or security domains
• Proven experience driving business requirements through deployment with measurable impact
• Deep expertise in backend system design and distributed systems
• Own and evolve our CI/CD automation and cloud infrastructure strategy to improve reliability, scalability, and security
• Best-in-class CI/CD practices and experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience operating observability and logging systems at scale (for example, Datadog and Sentry)
• Experience in an Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or DevOps-focused role in an AWS cloud environment
• Expertise writing production code in Golang or Python
• Strong fundamentals in software design, development, and architecture

Mindset:

• Ownership and initiative in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong product and stakeholder judgment, including first-principles decision making
• Mentorship and technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and coaching

What You'll Do

• Lead architecture and technical decision making, including edge cases across product, public cloud, and the security domain
• Drive initiatives end-to-end — from ambiguous business requirements through implementation, deployment, and measurable outcomes
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure cloud-based services with an emphasis on efficiency and self-service
• Apply first-principles thinking to guide architectural decisions and manage stakeholder trade-offs
• Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and course correction, and how to use observability systems to operate services with confidence
• Establish and elevate engineering best practices across backend development, DevOps, and infrastructure
• Deliver business impact by solving ambiguous problems across the company and, when needed, with customers
• Partner closely with development teams and fellow platform engineers to address critical issues
• Build automation tooling to streamline provisioning, configuration, and deployment & Improve service visibility via metrics, tracing, logs, and analytics

About Panther

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.

Perks

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO policy, with a minimum requirement of 15 days off per year, observing major US holidays, plus an end of year break
• Latest tech equipment and 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, in conjunction with our in-person health and safety policy)
• Annual company off-sites (in conjunction with our in-person health and safety policy)

Cash compensation range: $176,000 - $223,000 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 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.