Site Reliability Engineer - US Government

The role

You will help build, operate and maintain reliable, scalable production infrastructure for the Palantir platform, across cloud and on-prem environments. You will automate routine operations and share responsibility with engineering teams for diagnosing and preventing production issues.

What you will do

• Maintain availability of cloud and physical Linux servers that power the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments
• Design, deploy and operate infrastructure to support customer and product requirements using 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
• Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations
• Participate in a support on-call schedule

Required qualifications

• Active security clearance
• 4+ years of experience with Linux system administration (RHEL or equivalent preferred)
• Experience with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP and/or hardware-based environments
• Familiarity with monitoring systems such as Prometheus and writing health checks
• Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash or similar
• Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or Data Science
• Confidence troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using stack traces and observability and systems tools
• Comfort managing large-scale production systems with configuration management, load balancing, monitoring and alerting, and container orchestration
• Demonstrated ability to continuously learn and work independently, making decisions with minimal supervision while working in secure facilities

Nice to have

• Experience with containers (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) at scale
• DOD 8570 IAT Level II or greater certification (e.g. CISSP, Security+)
• Unix/Linux computing environment certification (e.g. Linux+, RHCE)

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, plus voluntary life insurance
• Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance, automatically covered
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take-what-you-need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off at the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Leave of absence program, including military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy and preservation
• Stipend for expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• Requires an active security clearance
• Recruiters 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, helping partners develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. It is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodation in the application and hiring process.