Associate Threat Researcher

The Job

As an Associate Threat Researcher, you’ll be part of Panther’s Threat Research team, helping build and improve the detections that power our security platform. You’ll work closely with experienced researchers to develop, test, and maintain detection content while expanding your skills in threat research and detection engineering. You’ll play a key role in contributing to Panther’s open source detection library, learning to replicate attack patterns in lab environments, and applying threat frameworks to real-world scenarios. You’ll collaborate closely with senior researchers and engineers to expand your technical expertise and deliver high-quality content that helps customers detect threats from day one.

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 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 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

• Support the development and tuning of detection content for Panther’s security platform.
• Assist in configuring and testing lab environments to replicate common attack patterns.
• Proactively assess the threat landscape to deliver content for Panther’s security platform based on value, customer needs, and emerging threats.
• Use data to monitor and iterate on detection rules, cloud scanning policies, and dashboards to increase their efficacy over time.
• Contribute back to open source projects such as our Panther Analysis repo and Panther’s Sigma backend.
• Write documentation for detection content and strategy.

The Requirements

• 1–2 years of experience in a security-related role such as SOC analyst, detection engineer, or incident responder.
• Experience applying the MITRE ATT&CK framework for threat intelligence analysis and threat modeling.
• Experience in operating, monitoring, and securing cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency with detection and search languages such as SPL, KQL, or Python.
• Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and a passion for continuous learning in the cybersecurity field.

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 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 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 compan