Listing Description
The Job
As a Senior Detection Engineer at Panther Labs, you will be part of the Engineering team focused on building and expanding on our detection capabilities in our product. Your job will be primarily focused on writing detections-as-code in Python. Your work will benefit all of our customers by helping them quickly and effectively identify risks through our product.
The Company
Panther Labs is a security startup founded in San Francisco, CA with the mission to help companies detect and respond to security breaches at a cloud-scale. The company was founded by security practitioners who wanted to solve modern detection challenges using code and automation, developer workflows, and big data for security investigations. Panther’s platform allows security engineers to focus on what they know best, reducing risk, detecting attacks, and protecting their organizations while avoiding the common pitfalls of overhead and operations.
Panther is a fast-growing company with employees spread across the world. Our customers include companies like Dropbox, GitLab, Canva, to LaunchDarkly, and we were recently named #4 on the EnterpriseTech30’s startup list!
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
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401k program
- Remote-friendly
- Opportunities to attend industry conferences (when in-person events come back!)
- Annual company off-sites in awesome locations (when traveling comes back!)
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.
Listing Details
- Salary: $100000 - $175000
- Citizenship: Us Citizen
- Incentives: Stock Options
- Education: Bachelors Degree
- Travel: Not Provided
- Telework: Not Provided