Offensive Security Engineer

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.

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. Our offensive security engineers emulate these real-world threats and provide critical signal on attack vectors to help improve our security posture. This role will be hands-on and requires a deep understanding of micro-service architecture, multi-tenancy vulnerabilities, cloud security, and web application security.

In this role you’ll dive deep into the security of our products and more:

•  Conduct security assessments. You’ll learn how our products work at the most technical level and then try to break them. This includes everything in our current and future product and service portfolio from Apollo to Foundry. You’ll document security findings and work with AppSec and product engineers to develop mitigations.

•  Build offensive testing tooling and automation. Scale offensive security testing by developing tooling and automation. Repeatable security testing is ensures that mitigations and controls remain consistent and effective in the face of high velocity development.

•  Define security metrics. Data is at the heart of Palantir and its important for our security engineers to use data to drive their decisions. As an offensive security engineer you’ll define, report, and use risk metrics to conduct security assessments.

•  Collaborate with other Palantir security teams. You’ll work with our incident response team to improve detection and response capabilities across our products and infrastructure. There will also be opportunities to work with our Protect team to identify vulnerabilities in our product infrastructure and help define relevant security controls.

•  Help defend a unique threat environment. Palantir offers an unparalleled opportunity to ply your craft on the bleeding edge of technology, software, and AI. With a wide range of customers and global impact our software is under constant threat from advanced persistent threats (APT). You get to think like an attacker and provide outside-the-box thinking on how to misuse our products. 

• Perform offensive security assessments on highly complex products to identify vulnerabilities
• Perform offensive security assessments within our software supply chain
• Collaborate with engineering teams on security controls, threat modeling, and security-critical code and architecture.
• Develop and implement offensive tooling and automation to scale your capabilities and knowledge
• Operate as an offensive security expert for our products to inform risk assessments during product design
• Enable other security teams to focus on defending and improving critical areas of our product

• Self motivated, experience in solving complex problems
• Experience performing offensive security testing on software supply chains including CI/CD systems, source control, and dependency based attack vectors
• Participation in bug bounties, CTFs, vulnerability research, open source tool development, and security presentations
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly and in complex deployments
• Experience testing AI related vulnerabilities and architectures.
• Willingness or eligibility to obtain a US security clearance

• 5+ years of experience performing offensive security testing on web applications, cloud environments, and highly scaled architectures (e.g. SOA or micro-services)
• Experience testing and exploiting a variety of services and bug types including authentication and authorization, multi-tenancy, and cloud environment misconfigurations
• Ability to write code to automate aspects of offensive testing, familiarity with Python, Java, Go are preferred
• Ability to evaluate code for vulnerabilities and weaknesses
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortableness working closely with engineering and defensive security teams

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

•  Relocation assistance

•  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.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.