Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

The role

You will build infrastructure software that underpins Palantir Foundry and Gotham, including search, distributed systems, storage, auth and deployment automation. You will work in small teams and may be offered a short embedded assignment with customers under the Frontline program.

What you will do

• Build a performant search and indexing ecosystem for granularly permissioned data
• Contribute to open-source data processing libraries
• Build distributed systems that schedule hundreds of thousands of containers every hour
• Design architecture and opinionated APIs for application developers
• Trace and observe performance in high-scale distributed microservice architectures
• Build storage, auth, and asset serving systems for other product teams
• Automate deployment and operations of distributed systems such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Kafka

Required qualifications

• 6+ years designing, building and operating scalable, reliable infrastructure systems in production
• Background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding skills in languages such as Java, C++, Python, Rust or similar
• Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure and other technical tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates

Nice to have

• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
• Voluntary life insurance
• Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance covered automatically
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• 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
• New child expense stipend
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• Active US Security clearance is beneficial but not required; willingness to obtain one is also accepted
• Some roles may be remote only from the state in which you are employed, on an exceptional basis
• Frontline is an optional short-term embedded customer assignment that you may be offered

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 serves public and private sector institutions in countries around the world.