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Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure

palantir · Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid

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About palantir

We build software that empowers organizations to effectively integrate their data, decisions, and operations. Backed by Founders Fund.

About 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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.

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...

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