Palantir
Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure
$135K–$200K
Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years; the posting allows SRE, DevOps, software engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates secure identity infrastructure and tooling for Palantir’s corporate and customer-facing platforms.
What you'll do
- Develop identity-platform automation and tooling, including cloud-hosted containerized services and SSO integrations.
- Build governance, authorization, federation, and token-issuance capabilities for human and non-human identities.
- Threat-model identity implementations and collaborate on authentication security standards and compliance services.
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 another language; experience with infrastructure-as-code.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
Nice to have
- Go is preferred.
- Technical proficiency in identity protocols and experience with identity governance platforms, policy engines, authorization-as-code, token issuance, federation, or 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 and support for delegation and attribution.
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