Senior Software Engineer - Observability

The role

You will be directly responsible for Palantir's observability platform, covering log, metric and trace ingestion, monitoring and alerting, and workflows built on that data. You will set technical strategy and roadmap for your team, and mentor and lead engineers.

What you will do

• Set and define technical strategy for your team, aligned with the wider team strategy
• Build and champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden and ensure scalability
• Review technical roadmaps and project implementation with substantive technical discussion
• Work with teammates and stakeholders to deliver technical solutions to business needs
• Facilitate partnerships between engineering teams and operators to build products
• Mentor engineers, define the technical bar, and provide feedback and performance management
• Foster a non-hierarchical exchange of ideas

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years contributing to system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling)
• 1+ years as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, with coverage for eligible dependents
• Voluntary life insurance
• Automatic basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off at year end (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 with a new child

Before you apply

• Active US Security clearance required, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one
• Candidates must work from the state where they are employed if remote; onsite postings require working from an office
• Palantir will never ask you to pay or share financial information during interviews

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. It is an Equal Opportunity Employer that offers reasonable accommodation in hiring.