Edge Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will build, operate and maintain high-performance, reliable infrastructure, including physical bare metal servers in data centers and edge environments. You will work on the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments and help build and scale new environments on site.

What you will do

• Maintain availability of cloud and physical Kubernetes servers that power the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments.
• Design, deploy and operate infrastructure to support customer and product requirements via modern orchestration and monitoring platforms.
• Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements and SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
• Identify, troubleshoot and solve network and systems issues.
• Script to automate routine operational tasks.
• Share responsibility for diagnosing, resolving and preventing production issues.
• Perform physical network engineering.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing medium to large scale systems.
• Active clearance, or the ability to obtain an active clearance in the country the job is advertised.
• Availability to work in-office or on-site in Warsaw five days a week.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with multiple teams spread over a wide geography.
• Ability to work remotely with little oversight and guidance.
• Ability to support customers and advise them on hardware purchases, capacity planning and firewalls.
• Understanding of how database systems work and how to manage them, e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL.
• Understanding of Kubernetes, Cassandra, Hadoop and distributed systems.
• Experience with server hardware, e.g. Dell, HP, and network engineering in production data centers.
• Solid practical experience of Linux OS, administration and troubleshooting, including LVM commands.

Benefits

• Health and well-being support, as described in Life at Palantir (offerings may vary by region).
• Growth and development based on individual strengths, skills and interests.

Before you apply

• An active security clearance is required, or the ability to obtain one in the country the job is advertised.
• You must be available to work on site in Warsaw five days a week.
• Palantir will never ask you to pay or share financial information during the interview process.

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. Its platform is deployed in critical mission environments, including combat zones and classified networks.