Identity Platform Engineer: Scale Secure IAM & Identities

Palantir Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Commuter benefits

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Palantir Technologies seeks a Platform Engineer on the Identity Platform team to design, build, and operate secure-by-design identity infrastructure and tooling. You will advance identity governance and access management across Palantirians and customers worldwide, shaping entitlements, policy, and token issuance at scale.

You will join a high‑performing team focused on automation, secure baselines, and scalable identity services across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with opportunities to impact critical

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE/DevOps or software engineering with a strong security focus.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized services (EKS, ECS, or similar) in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Expert-level proficiency in Go (preferred), Python, or TypeScript.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Active TS/SCI security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and tooling for corporate and customer-facing identity platforms.
• Build, secure, and manage geo-redundant containerized services (EKS and ECS) in AWS and Azure.
• Scale SSO integrations across multiple Entra ID tenants using infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• Build tooling to standardize and scale operational workflows across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Extend the identity platform to non-human identities, treating workloads and AI agents as first-class principals with scoped, short-lived credentials.
• Build the governance layer: an access graph that makes entitlements legible and a policy engine that makes authorization decisions enforceable and auditable.
• Design token-issuance and federation flows that make least-privilege, ephemerals access the default.
• Research and drive adoption of emerging authentication and session security standards in collaboration with Security Engineers.
• Pressure-test designs and partner with Identity Security Engineers to threat model implementations before they ship.
• Partner with Security Compliance Engineers to build services that reduce the cost and complexity of compliance enforcement.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Security

Tools

Terraform

Helm

CloudFormation

Job description

Palantir Technologies seeks a Platform Engineer on the Identity Platform team to design, build, and operate secure-by-design identity infrastructure and tooling. You will advance identity governance and access management across Palantirians and customers worldwide, shaping entitlements, policy, and token issuance at scale.

You will join a high‑performing team focused on automation, secure baselines, and scalable identity services across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with opportunities to impact critical