Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure

About this role

Join Palantir's Identity Platform team as a Platform Engineer to design and operate secure identity infrastructure serving both corporate and customer-facing systems. You'll build next-generation identity solutions including access governance, policy engines, and token-issuance layers that enforce least-privilege access at scale across distributed and regulated environments.

What you'll do

• Design and build secure-by-design identity infrastructure and tooling for corporate and production environments
• Develop access graph systems that make entitlements legible and auditable
• Implement policy engines that enforce least-privilege authorization with short-lived, scoped tokens
• Research and scale innovative identity solutions to address evolving security threats
• Create paved-road tooling and secure baselines for teams across the organization
• Operate identity platforms serving globally distributed workforces and air-gapped regulated environments

What they're looking for

• Identity and access management (IAM) architecture
• Secure-by-design principles and threat modeling
• Policy engine design and implementation
• Distributed systems and scalability
• Token issuance and lifecycle management
• Infrastructure automation and tooling
• Security research and vulnerability assessment
• Cloud and edge infrastructure