Senior Identity Security Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 135000 - 200000
Yearly Salary:
Posted on:
15 days ago
Posted on:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the worlds 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 Senior Identity Security Engineer on Palantirs 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 Palantirs 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
- 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
Salary
The salary range for this position is estimated to be $135000 - $200000/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 individuals 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.
Benefits
Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical dental and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
Employees are automatically covered by Palantirs 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
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 Palantirs 401k plan
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes thats why we celebrate individuals strengths skills and interests from your first interview to your longterm growth rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians lives is just one of the ways were investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantirs values and culture we believe employees are better together and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week) allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need there are a few roles that allow for Remote work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite you are required to work from an office.
If you want to empower the worlds most important institutions you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process please reach out and let us know how we can help.
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Senior IC
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