Senior Identity Security Engineer

Palantir Technologies

Senior Identity Security Engineer at Palantir managing identity infrastructure security. Leading technical direction and threat modeling across identity systems.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $95,000 - $142,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in Information Security, Identity and Access Management, or an equivalent discipline, with demonstrated depth in identity-specific security
Hands-on production experience with at least one enterprise identity provider (Entra ID, Okta, or equivalent), including its governance and security surface
Deep technical proficiency in identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, FIDO2, WebAuthn) and their attack surface
Working proficiency in Go, Python, PowerShell, or TypeScript - enough to prototype tooling, analyze identity-handling code for security defects, scale automation across the environment, and engage in code review
Strong communication skills and ability to communicate to a wide-ranging audience - from engineer-facing design reviews to leadership-facing risk calls

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
Commuter benefits
Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

identity securityidentity and access managementSAMLOIDCOAuth 2.0SCIMFIDO2WebAuthnGoPython

Soft Skills

communicationleadership