Palantir
Senior Identity Security Engineer
$135K–$200K
Washington, D.C. · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in Information Security, Identity and Access Management, or an equivalent discipline.
About the job
Own and improve identity security across Palantir’s workforce, customer, workload, agent, production, and government identity systems.
What you'll do
- Lead identity threat modeling, review identity architecture, and track remediation.
- Build and scale agent and non-human identity, authentication, federation, authorization, and just-in-time access patterns.
- Partner with engineering teams to reduce identity-integration attack surfaces and enforce governance and security policies.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in Information Security, Identity and Access Management, or an equivalent discipline, with demonstrated identity-specific security depth.
- Hands-on production experience with an enterprise identity provider such as Entra ID, Okta, or equivalent.
- Deep technical proficiency in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, FIDO2, and WebAuthn.
- Working proficiency in Go, Python, PowerShell, or TypeScript; strong communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud IAM, workload and non-human identity, privileged access and secrets management, identity governance, or just-in-time access.
- Identity threat detection and response, red team/offensive security, incident response, regulated environments, community contributions, or a current US security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.
Pay
$135,000 - $200,000/year (base salary)
Tools
Entra ID, Okta, SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, FIDO2, WebAuthn
AI focus
Drive agent identity infrastructure, including short-lived credentials, human-principal-bound lifecycles, and controlled workload onboarding.
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