Palantir
Senior Identity Security Engineer
$135K–$200K
Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years
About the job
Own and improve identity security across Palantir’s workforce, customer, workload, agent, production, and government identity systems.
What you'll do
- Drive agent and non-human identity infrastructure, including short-lived credentials and controlled workload onboarding.
- Architect authentication, federation, authorization, and just-in-time access systems; reduce standing access.
- Lead identity threat modeling, review identity architecture, and track remediation.
What they ask for
- 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.
Nice to have
- Experience designing or evaluating non-human identity architectures and reducing standing access through just-in-time access.
- Experience with identity threat detection and response, offensive security or incident response, regulated environments, or security-community contributions.
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 agent identity, short-lived credentials, and lifecycle bound to a human principal.
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