Senior Identity Security Engineer

Core Responsibilities

Own the day-to-day identity security posture across corporate, production, customer, and US Government identity planes

Drive the rollout of agent identity infrastructure - short-lived credentials, lifecycle bound to a human principal, controlled workload onboarding

Architect authentication, federation, and authorization systems - including SAML, OIDC, and policy-driven access control models (RBAC, ABAC, policy-as-code) - across workforce and workload identity

Scale non-human identity patterns across service, workload, and agent populations - short-lived credentials, mTLS, identity-based networking

Drive adoption of just-in-time access patterns across the identity program, partnering with platform and engineering teams on governance rollout and policy enforcement

Lead identity threat modeling on a regular cadence; publish findings and track remediation

Serve as a primary security reviewer on identity architecture decisions and cross-team RFCs

Research and drive adoption of emerging identity security primitives and standards in partnership with Security Engineers across InfoSec

Partner with engineering teams across Palantir to reduce the attack surface of identity integrations at scale

What We Value

Experience with cloud IAM and workload identity patterns - service accounts and identity-based access in distributed environments

Experience designing or evaluating non-human identity (NHI) architectures - service, workload, and agent - and a strong point of view on where the industry is headed

Familiarity with privileged access management and secrets management patterns at scale

A track record of reducing standing access and shifting organizations toward just-in-time access postures in production environments

Experience with identity governance platforms and a clear-eyed view of their security implications

Identity threat detection and response experience, including detection engineering against identity telemetry

Red team, offensive security, or incident response background - especially with an identity focus

Exposure to regulated environments (FedRAMP, SOX, IL-levels)

Desire to further the identity security community through substantive contributions (e.g. conference talks, blog posts, public tool development, RFCs)

Current US security clearance, or eligibility to obtain clearance

What We Require

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