Senior Identity Security EngineerActive$135K–$200K

The opportunity

A World-Changing Company 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.

What you'll do

  • Own the day-to-day identity security posture across corporate, production,: customer, and US Government identity planes

  • Drive the rollout of agent identity infrastructure: short-lived credentials, lifecycle bound to a human principal, controlled workload onboarding

  • Architect authentication, federation, and authorization systems: including SAML, OIDC, and policy-driven access control models (RBAC, ABAC, policy-as-code) - across workforce and workload identity

  • Scale non-human identity patterns across service, workload, and agent: populations - short-lived credentials, mTLS, identity-based networking

  • Drive adoption of just-in-time access patterns across the identity program,: partnering with platform and engineering teams on governance rollout and policy enforcement

  • Lead identity threat modeling on a regular cadence; publish findings and track remediation

What they're looking for

  • Serve as a primary security reviewer on identity architecture decisions and cross-team RFCs
  • Research and drive adoption of emerging identity security primitives and: standards in partnership with Security Engineers across InfoSec
  • Partner with engineering teams across Palantir to reduce the attack surface of identity integrations at scale
  • Experience with cloud IAM and workload identity patterns: service accounts and identity-based access in distributed environments