Palantir
Senior Identity Security Engineer
$135K–$200K
New York, NY · 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, production, and government environments, including agent and workload identity.
What you'll do
- Drive agent and non-human identity infrastructure, including short-lived credentials and controlled onboarding.
- Architect authentication, federation, authorization, and just-in-time access systems; reduce standing access.
- Lead identity threat modeling, review identity architecture, and partner with engineering teams to reduce identity-related attack surface.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in Information Security, Identity and Access Management, or an equivalent discipline, with demonstrated identity-security depth.
- Production experience with an enterprise identity provider, including its governance and security surface.
- Deep proficiency in identity protocols and their attack surface.
- 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/response, red team, offensive security, incident response, regulated environments, or current/obtainable US security clearance.
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-linked lifecycles, and controlled workload onboarding.
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