Application Security Engineer

$200,000 - $200,000/Yr

Palantir Technologies - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

Palantir Technologies is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join our team in Seattle, WA. As a world-changing company, Palantir builds the leading software for data-driven decisions and operations, empowering partners to tackle critical challenges such as developing lifesaving drugs, forecasting supply chain disruptions, and locating missing children. The Application Security Team plays a vital role in ensuring the security of our products, which support important work in defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. This position is crucial as we protect mission-critical information against advanced persistent threats. In this role, you will be hands-on and have a wide-ranging impact on the security of Palantir. You will conduct product security reviews, performing full-scope assessments of our current and future product and service portfolio, including whitebox, greybox, and blackbox assessments. Collaborating with offensive security teams, engineering teams, and other members of the InfoSec organization, you will work to harden our products against dedicated adversaries. As the security subject matter expert, you will assist product architects and engineers in threat modeling, risk assessment, and implementing security controls to address identified issues, ensuring our products are secure-by-default. You will also own strategic security initiatives that have a transformational impact across the company. This includes implementing software supply chain security controls, developing new security services, and addressing massive-scale security problems. Your responsibilities will extend to identifying and analyzing vulnerabilities, utilizing static and dynamic code analysis, security scanning, and collaborating with our incident response team on product security issues. This role offers significant autonomy and the resources to make substantial security improvements across Palantir, requiring curiosity, tenacity, and a drive to excel as a security engineer.

Responsibilities

• Perform deep architecture and security reviews on highly complex products to identify vulnerabilities
• Lead engineering teams in feature design, threat modeling, and security-critical code and architecture
• Develop and implement automation to eliminate entire classes of 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

Requirements

• Development or software engineering experience and a deep passion for information security
• Experience with a modern high-level programming language (e.g. Java, Golang, Javascript, Python, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience evaluating code for vulnerabilities and weaknesses
• Experience with complex architectures and codebases (e.g. SOA or micro-services)
• Experience utilizing/with CodeQL or other static code analysis platforms
• Experience performing black-box testing of web applications

Nice-to-haves

• Self-motivated with experience in solving complex problems
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working closely with engineering teams
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly in complex deployments

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their eligible dependents
• Basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance coverage
• 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 adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan enrollment for employees