Information Security Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 23 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Information Security
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SKILLS

Python Incident Response Detection Engineering TCP/IP networking Forensics Threat Intelligence

FULL DESCRIPTION

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

Core Responsibilities

  • Build, run, and own infrastructure and automation to detect, contain, and eradicate security threats.
  • Develop alerting and detection strategies to identify malicious or anomalous behavior.
  • Develop new and novel defensive techniques to identify or counteract changes in adversary techniques and tactics.
  • Dissect network, host, memory, and other artifacts originating from multiple operating systems and applications.
  • Investigate enterprise-wide operations to uncover sophisticated and undetected threats.
  • Partner closely with other members of the Information Security team to lead changes in the company's network defense posture.

What We Value

  • Broad exposure to multiple security subject areas, including a strong background in forensics or threat intelligence.
  • Deep exposure in Incident Response or Detection Engineering.
  • Desire to further the information security community through substantive contributions (e.g. conference talks, blog posts, public tool development, etc.).
  • Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP networking and common protocols.

What We Require

  • Extensive security experience (3+ years) in at least one major platform (e.g. AWS, Azure, Windows, OS X, Linux, etc.).
  • Proficiency in Python (preferred), PowerShell, or similar.
  • Active security clearance or eligibility to obtain a security clearance.
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