Palantir
Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure
$135K–$200K
Washington, D.C. · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, software engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
About the job
Build and operate secure identity infrastructure, governance, authorization, and credentialing systems for Palantir’s corporate and customer-facing platforms.
What you'll do
- Develop identity-platform automation and tooling, including SSO integrations and cloud operational workflows.
- Build, secure, and operate geo-redundant containerized services and production APIs across cloud platforms.
- Extend identity governance and access systems to workloads and AI agents, including policy, federation, and short-lived credentials.
What they ask for
- 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, software engineering, or an equivalent discipline, with a strong passion for security.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized services in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; and operating production services or APIs.
- Expert-level proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language; experience with infrastructure-as-code.
- Active TS/SCI clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
Nice to have
- Go is preferred.
- Experience with identity protocols, identity platforms, policy engines, authorization-as-code, entitlement graphs, token issuance, federation, and non-human identity.
Pay
$135,000 - $200,000/year (base salary)
Tools
EKS, ECS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Entra ID, Go, Terraform
AI focus
Extend identity infrastructure to AI agents as first-class principals, with scoped, short-lived credentials, delegation, and attribution.
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