Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure

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

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

As a Platform Engineer on Palantir's Identity Platform team, you will design, build, and operate secure-by-design identity infrastructure and tooling. You will make identity governance and access management easier and more secure to implement for Palantirians and customers worldwide. As part of Palantir's best-in-class Information Security organization, you will research, implement, and scale innovative solutions that help Palantir stay ahead of a dynamic threat landscape.

You will help the team build the next-generation identity platform that treats agents and workload identities as first-class principals: the access graph that makes entitlements legible, the policy engine that makes authorization enforceable and auditable, and the token-issuance layer that keeps access short-lived, scoped, and least-privilege by default. Your work will shape the arc of these components from design to production.

You will join the high-performing Identity Platform team, engineers who are passionate about delivering identity outcomes at scale that reduce risk and friction. The team builds and operates the identity platforms that serve both corporate and production (customer-facing) infrastructure, and the paved-road tooling and secure baselines that teams across Palantir deploy on. Your goal will be to make the secure path the easy path. Your work will directly strengthen the identity substrate beneath Palantir's most critical deployments, from a globally distributed workforce to regulated and air-gapped environments.

Core 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 the implementation of Single Sign-On (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, ephemeral access the default
• Research and drive adoption of emerging authentication and session security standards (such as device-bound session credentials and continuous access evaluation) 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

What We Value

• Technical proficiency in identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, WebAuthn)
• Experience managing identities and governance workflows on platforms such as Entra ID, Keycloak, AWS Cognito, or Okta
• Experience with policy engines and authorization-as-code, and with relationship-based access modeling or entitlement graph design
• Experience with token issuance and federation, including OAuth 2.0 token exchange, short-lived credentials, and workload identity federation
• Non-human identity experience: workload and machine identity (service-to-service authentication, mTLS, workload attestation), plus interest in agentic identity (agents as principals, delegation and on-behalf-of flows, and attribution across a delegation chain)

What We Require

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, software engineering, or an equivalent discipline, with a strong passion for security
• Experience deploying and operating containerized services (EKS, ECS, or similar) in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience building and operating production services or APIs, not only automation scripts
• Expert-level proficiency in a language such as Go (preferred), Python, or TypeScript
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, or similar)
• An active TS/SCI security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one

Salary

The salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• 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
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

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