Offensive Security Engineer

Palantir
Full-time
Palo Alto, CA
$135,000 - $200,000
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

Palantir is seeking an Offensive Security Engineer to assess and improve the security of their products by emulating real-world threats. The role involves conducting security assessments, building offensive testing tooling, defining security metrics, and collaborating with other security teams. The engineer will work on cutting-edge technology and AI, focusing on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in a complex threat environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform offensive security assessments on complex products
  • Perform offensive security assessments within the software supply chain
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on security controls and threat modeling
  • Develop and implement offensive tooling and automation
  • Operate as an offensive security expert to inform risk assessments
  • Enable other security teams to focus on defending and improving critical areas

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in offensive security testing on web applications, cloud environments, and highly scaled architectures
  • Experience testing and exploiting a variety of services and bug types
  • 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

Benefits

  • No benefits