Identity Platform Engineer: Secure, Scalable Identities

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

AD&D and disability insurance

Commuter benefits

Relocation assistance

Paid time off

2 weeks paid time off at year end

10 paid holidays

Parental leave & back-up care

401k plan

Job summary

Palantir Technologies is seeking a Platform Engineer for its Identity Platform team in Palo Alto. You will design, build, and operate secure identity infrastructure and tooling to improve governance, access management, and auditable authorization across environments.

You will work on a high‑performing team delivering scalable identity services for corporate and production infrastructure, focusing on least-privilege access, token workflows, and secure baselines.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE/DevOps or equivalent with a security focus.
• Experience deploying containerized services (EKS/ECS/AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Production APIs experience.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• IaC experience with Terraform/Helm/CloudFormation.
• Active TS/SCI clearance or willingness to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and tooling for identity platforms.
• Manage geo-redundant containerized services in AWS and Azure.
• Scale SSO integrations across Entra ID tenants via IaC.
• Build tooling to standardize workflows across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Extend identity platform to non-human identities with short‑lived credentials.
• Develop governance layer with entitlements and policy engine.
• Design token issuance and federation flows with least-privilege access.
• Research authentication and session security standards.
• Threat-model designs with Identity Security Engineers.
• Collaborate with Security Compliance Engineers to simplify compliance.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Security

SRE

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

Helm

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

Palantir Technologies is seeking a Platform Engineer for its Identity Platform team in Palo Alto. You will design, build, and operate secure identity infrastructure and tooling to improve governance, access management, and auditable authorization across environments.

You will work on a high‑performing team delivering scalable identity services for corporate and production infrastructure, focusing on least-privilege access, token workflows, and secure baselines.