Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure at Palantir Technologies
Palo Alto, CA
$135,000–$200,000from the description
Aug 3, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Platform Engineer role on Palantir's Identity Platform team, focused on designing, building, and operating identity infrastructure for both corporate and customer-facing environments. The work centers on access governance, policy engines, token issuance, workload identity, and SSO integrations across AWS, Azure, and GCP — with a strong security-by-design mandate. Suited to engineers with hands-on experience in identity protocols, containerized services, and infrastructure-as-code who hold or can obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
Mid level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (9)
The job posting does not specify a city or office location. Palantir's headquarters is in New York, but the posting references multiple offices; no CBSA code is assigned as the primary location is ambiguous.
The title 'Platform Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years minimum and scope of responsibilities align with a Mid-level role.
Go is listed as the preferred language; Python and TypeScript are named as acceptable alternatives — captured as alternatives on a single skill.
Terraform, Helm, and CloudFormation are listed together under infrastructure-as-code in the requirements block; Terraform is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
EKS and ECS are listed as interchangeable container platforms in the requirements; EKS is the primary with ECS as an alternative.
Identity protocol skills (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, WebAuthn) and platform experience (Entra ID, Keycloak, Cognito, Okta) appear under 'What We Value' — a preferred/valued section, not the hard-requirements block.
TS/SCI clearance is a hard gate: the posting requires an active clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
The alt SOC 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) is a genuine runner-up given the deep identity security focus, but the primary day-to-day work is building and operating software platforms, making 15-1252 the better fit.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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