Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Foundations

Palantir Technologies is a leading company in data-driven software solutions, and they are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build scalable software that transforms data usage for organizations. The role involves collaborating across teams to develop foundational capabilities that support critical products used by various sectors, focusing on performance, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data
• Contributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains
• Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour
• Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path
• Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures
• Building reliant, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems
• Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments

Skills

• Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages
• 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, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality
• Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems is beneficial, but not required
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance is beneficial, but not necessary

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s 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 built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
• Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity
• Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis

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