Senior Software Engineer, Substrate

The role

You will design and build Palantir's managed Kubernetes product offerings across on-prem, cloud, internet-connected and air-gapped environments. You will bootstrap and operate a fleet of hundreds of K8s clusters with zero manual steps, and contribute to CNCF components.

What you will do

• Deliver a container runtime to new environment types such as new clouds, on-premise and edge devices
• Build automation and standards for operating K8s securely at scale with zero manual ops overhead
• Drive innovation through adoption of novel K8s features and CNCF tools, making upstream contributions as needed
• Design the next generation of Palantir's infrastructure through deep understanding of internal systems and CNCF standards
• Ensure scale, stability and security across compliance regimes and hosting infrastructure types
• Pre-empt production issues and root-cause them deeply

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence
• 2+ years of experience contributing to system design or architecture of new and existing systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in Golang, C/C++ or equivalent
• Working knowledge of infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or K8s operators
• Competent coding in Go, Java, or equivalent for automation or scripting
• Deep familiarity with hardware and OS configurations, diagnostic tooling and networking
• Deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale
• Experience with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCE) or sysadmin/SRE experience in data centers
• Experience designing, building and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems

Nice to have

• Experience with CNIs or cloud networking infrastructure
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals

Benefits

• Health and well-being support across areas of life
• Growth opportunities without traditional career ladders
• Offerings may vary by region

Before you apply

• Remote work is allowed only on an exceptional basis for some roles, and you must work from the city and country where you are employed
• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment 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. The Substrate team runs Palantir's core production infrastructure of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters.