Administer and improve cybersecurity detection and protection technologies, guide security practices across IT and application development, and help reduce organizational risk through threat response and security documentation.
Senior Identity Security Engineer
📜 Description
- Own identity security posture across corporate, production, customer, and US Government identity planes.
- Roll out agent identity infrastructure, including short-lived credentials, human-principal-bound lifecycles, and controlled workload onboarding.
- Architect authentication, federation, and authorization systems using identity protocols and policy-driven access controls.
- Scale non-human identity patterns across services, workloads, and agents, including mTLS and identity-based networking.
- Drive just-in-time access adoption and governance with platform and engineering teams.
- Lead identity threat modeling, review architecture and cross-team RFCs, and track remediation.
🛠️ Requirements
- 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 - enough to prototype tooling, analyze identity-handling code for security defects, scale automation across the environment, and engage in code review
- Strong communication skills and ability to communicate to a wide-ranging audience - from engineer-facing design reviews to leadership-facing risk calls
✨ Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical
- Dental
- Vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
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The Role
As a Senior Identity Security Engineer on Palantir's Identity Security team, you will own the security posture of the identity infrastructure that Palantirians, customers, and services rely on every day. The Identity Security team is responsible for all identity types at Palantir - workforce, customer, workload, and agentic - giving you the rare ability to architect, threat model, and drive security outcomes across the full identity surface. You will help shape the technical direction for identity security at Palantir, reduce standing access, lead identity threat modeling, and contribute to the next generation of identity primitives including agent identity, JIT-native governance, and unified policy enforcement across workforce and customer IAM. As part of Palantir's best-in-class Information Security organization, you will research, architect, and scale solutions that help Palantir stay ahead of a dynamic identity threat landscape.Core Responsibilities
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