Technical Program Manager - Security

The role

You will work as the program manager for Palantir's security engineering teams. You will track security projects, remove roadblocks, and help teams ship secure products.

What you will do

• Partner with security engineers, infrastructure teams, product managers and legal to drive key security deliverables through the software development and security lifecycle.
• Turn security goals from product and threat vision into specific team tasks and issues.
• Triage requests from the field and escalate items that need immediate attention.
• Keep a complete view of projects, including vulnerability remediation timelines, incident response obligations and detection coverage gaps.
• Resolve issues that could steer projects off course.
• Align security engineering, IT, legal and customer-facing teams around shared objectives.
• Design, document and improve security processes that scale without proportional increases in manual effort.
• Coordinate incident response, with clear ownership, timely communication and structured post-incident reviews.
• Work with customer-facing engineering teams on adoption, rollout and support of security features and certifications.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated success managing complex security or software development programs for an enterprise software company, startup or otherwise.
• Ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning security concepts, including threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response and cloud infrastructure security.
• Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations, including active security incidents.
• Creative approach to program management centered on lightweight frameworks that enable rapid iteration.
• Ability to build strong relationships with technical security teams and customer-facing stakeholders, with empathy for end-user needs.
• Meticulous attention to detail, including holding to your team's security and product quality bar.
• Proven track record of building and scaling security programs and processes from the ground up.
• Must work from the country listed on the posting and live within a commutable distance of your local Palantir office.
• Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance (preferred).

Nice to have

• Relevant technical background or experience in a security or software-related field.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, with eligible dependents covered
• Voluntary life insurance
• Automatic basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off at the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Leave of absence program, including 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 for expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• Must be willing and eligible to obtain a U.S. security clearance (preferred).
• You must work from the country listed on the posting and live within a commutable distance of your local Palantir office.
• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment or share financial information during the interview process.

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. The company describes its software as trusted by some of the world's most critical institutions.