A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
Our Product Security team works on secure-by-design and deep product partnership. We build strong relationships with other teams and help them build secure software and infrastructure. This includes maintaining central best practices, reviewing early-stage designs, helping develop threat models, and offering guidance through implementation.
The Role
Our products support some of the most important and impactful work in the world, including defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. We are trusted by our customers to protect their mission-critical information in the face of advanced persistent threats. The mission of the Product Security Team is to enable Palantir’s product engineering organizations to build, ship, and operate the most secure and resilient products and infrastructure possible. We partner deeply with engineering teams across the company — from product engineers to forward deployed engineers — to embed security at every layer of what we build. Given the mission critical work that Palantir does, investments in product security have never been more important.
As a Product Infrastructure Security Engineer, you will be hands-on and have wide-ranging impact for the security of Palantir:
- Product security reviews. You will perform full-scope security reviews of our current and future product and service portfolio. You will work with offensive security teams, engineering teams, and other members of the InfoSec organization to harden our products against our dedicated adversaries.
- Architecture and design. You will be the security subject matter expert for product architects and engineers. You will threat model, assess risks, and help implement security controls and mitigations to address identified issues. You will directly steer the design of our products to ensure we are secure-by-default.
- Strategic security initiatives. You will be empowered to own transformational security initiatives that have broad impact across Palantir's most critical platforms. Members of the Product Infrastructure Security Team work directly to secure Palantir's core products, including AIP, Foundry, Gotham, and Mission Manager.
- Vulnerability identification and analysis. You will be responsible for finding new and novel ways to identify and resolve security vulnerabilities in our product infrastructure. This includes posture analysis and management, infrastructure vulnerability scanning, investigation of security reports, and direct work with our incident response team on product security issues and incidents.
This role has wide-reaching impact, strong autonomy, and the resources and empowerment to make significant security improvements across all Palantir. The skills and background of successful candidates may vary highly, but curiosity, tenacity, and a drive to be a world-class security engineer are the underpinnings of our team.
Core Responsibilities
- Perform deep architecture and security reviews on highly complex platform architecture to identify vulnerabilities
- Lead engineering teams in feature design, threat modeling, and security-critical control implementation
- Develop and implement automation to enforce security baselines and eliminate entire classes of infrastructure weaknesses across the organization
- Drive decision-making by determining the tradeoffs between security and product design
- Lead implementation of strategic security initiatives that improve security across Palantir
What We Value
- Self motivated, experience in solving complex problems
- History and experience designing and operating production-grade infrastructure and platform services
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; comfort working with engineering teams across verticals
- Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly and in complex deployments
What We Require
- Platform engineering experience operating Kubernetes and/or building controllers, and a deep passion for information security
- Experience with a modern high-level programming language (e.g. Java, Golang, Javascript, Python, etc.)
- Experience with complex or distributed platform architectures
- Experience security testing or hardening Kubernetes based platforms
- Experience evaluating Cloud, Linux, and Kubernetes configurations for vulnerabilities and weaknesses
Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.
Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.
Benefits
• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at
Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.
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