Infrastructure Engineer, Palantir
Security Infrastructure
$130-185k
Data analytics software
Job no longer available
Data analytics software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$130-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Palantir believes in augmenting human intelligence, not replacing it. They believe with good data and the right technology, people and institutions today can still solve hard problems and change the world for the better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience. Plus to multi-cloud / Kubernetes operational experience at scale
- 3+ years extensive security experience running, administering, or operating a complex Splunk Enterprise cluster
- Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
- A highly analytical mindset and eagerness to solve technical problems with distributed computing, code development, data pipelining tools, data health and monitoring frameworks, and other technologies
- Ability to independently own projects and balance competing priorities, whilst still effectively collaborating with colleagues
- Experience with public cloud service providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern deployment technologies (e.g. CI/CD, Kubernetes, docker)
- Proficiency in a modern scripting or programming language such as Python (preferred), or similar scripting languages (i.e., shell, etc.)
What the job involves
- The mission of the Security Infrastructure team is to build platforms and software to enable our products and teams to provide the highest level of assurance to our customers
- This role has wide-reaching impact, strong autonomy, and the resources and empowerment to make significant security improvements across all of Palantir
- The skills and background of successful candidates may vary, but curiosity, tenacity, and a drive to be an extraordinary security engineer are the underpinnings of our team
- Palantir faces all manner of adversaries including hacktivists, criminal enterprises, and nation states. The infrastructure you will own powers our global information security program to detect and defeat them
- As an Infrastructure Engineer on our Security Infrastructure team, you will be hands-on and have wide-ranging impact for the security of Palantir and its customers
- Architecting and operating multiple, geographically distributed Kubernetes clusters supporting our mission software. These clusters run in cloud as well as air-gapped environments
- Operating multi-petabyte, distributed security information and event management systems that handle dozens of terabytes of security telemetry daily
- Operating security orchestration automation, and response (SOAR) clusters
- Associated data and telemetry pipelines. We ingest data from hundreds of discrete sources to arm our network defenders. Keeping these data pipelines lean, healthy, secure, and timely is germane to our detection and investigation workflows
- Work closely with Infrastructure team to maintain, operate, and evolve multiple highly performant, large-scale Kubernetes and application clusters
- Collaborate with other InfoSec teams to ensure data and telemetry collected is accurate, actionable, and provides significant security value
- Develop, deploy, and monitor data pipelines to provide timely, complete, and accurate security data for network defenders
- Directly support detection and investigation workflows through query development, dashboard creation, training, and new capability development
- Ingest, enrich, transform, and analyze data in Palantir Foundry to provide meaningful security insights and improvements
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Palantir have a huge mission to transform the world using data and technology. Its technology has been used to stop terrorist attacks, discover medicines and gain an edge in the financial markets. These are big and exciting problems to work on.
Palantir is a big and established company, having been founded in 2004, but is still struggling to turn a profit thanks to aggressive expansion and a general downturn in the global economy particularly affecting tech. It has large customers (including the US military and in 2024, the Israeli Defence Ministry) and a strong demand for its product, but delivery is a long-term and complex proposition that can take some time to yield returns.
There has been some controversy around the company due to the work it does for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, an organisation that Google refused to support. Palantir has stated that its technology is only used for criminal investigation and not enforcement.
Palantir has recently expanded its ongoing role with the British Ministry of Defence which will offer support for the UK's military operations and intelligence gathering by simulating operational planning. This is in addition to Palantir's partnership with the UK's NHS to help reduce the backlog of patients waiting for elective care.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2020
$550m
LATE VC
Nov 2016
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and disability coverage
- Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
- Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Unlimited paid time off
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year
Company values
- We make products for human-driven analysis of real-world data
- We build our company around mission-driven engineering
- We meet the problems where they live
- We design technology to help institutions protect liberty
- We go where we're needed most
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Founders
Alexander Karp
(CEO)Previously founded Caedmon Group. Received Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
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