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 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 a Site Reliability Engineer on our Security Infrastructure team, you will be hands-on and have wide-ranging impact for the security of Palantir and its customers. You will be responsible for:
•  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.Core ResponsibilitiesWork 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.What We ValueA 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 We Require5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience. Plus to multi-cloud / Kubernetes operational experience at scale.Active US Security clearance

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.BenefitsMedical, dental, and vision insuranceLife and disability coveragePaid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parentsFamily planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistanceStipend to help with expenses that come with a new childCommuter benefitsRelocation assistanceUnlimited paid time off2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each yearSalary
The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $125,000 - $185,000/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.