Skydio
Senior Data Security Engineer
$160K–$190K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Own company-wide data access and security in Palantir Foundry, ensuring sensitive data and AI integrations follow appropriate permissions and can be audited.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain Foundry groups, roles, and access policies provisioned from Workday and Okta; keep access synchronized with source systems.
- Protect sensitive and export-controlled data, administer Foundry access, and provide evidence for audits and customer questions.
- Partner with IT, Security, and AI infrastructure teams on identity, network controls, and secure agent access; lead data-sharing standards through the Data Council.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in data platform, data security, or infrastructure engineering, including owning access control on a data platform such as Foundry, Databricks, or Snowflake.
- Experience provisioning groups from an HR system and identity provider, separating organizational groups from application and data-access roles, and handling reorgs, contractors, and exceptions.
- Production experience with row- and column-level security, masking and redaction, and classification-based policies.
- Knowledge of SAML, SCIM, SSO, Okta, and network egress controls; strong SQL and Python.
Nice to have
- Palantir Foundry experience, especially Markings, Organizations, security policies, and project roles.
- Databricks Unity Catalog; Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code; or governance under ITAR, CMMC, or FedRAMP.
Pay
$160,000 - $190,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Palantir Foundry, Workday, Okta, SAML, SCIM, SQL, Python, Databricks
AI focus
Work with AI infrastructure engineers to secure AI agents and coding tools connecting to Foundry through MCP servers, OAuth clients, and service accounts, so agents inherit the user's access limits; the role also uses AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
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