6 months ago
Base Salary
$135k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex, granularly permissioned data.
- Contribute to open-source data-processing libraries and integrate performance improvements.
- Build distributed systems for large-scale compute workloads, including orchestration and scheduling of hundreds of thousands of containers per hour.
- Design system architecture and opinionated APIs that simplify application development.
- Implement tracing and performance observability for high-scale distributed microservice architectures.
- Build reliable, performant, and scalable storage, authentication, and asset-serving systems for other product teams.
- Automate deployment, management, and operations of distributed systems such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka across environments.
- Potentially participate in Frontline, working directly with customers to understand problems and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable and reliable infrastructure systems in production.
- An engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar field.
- Strong coding skills and demonstrated proficiency in Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with storage and data-processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and related technical tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to iterate quickly, incorporate feedback, and maintain a high quality bar.
- Experience developing and managing highly available distributed systems is beneficial but not required.
- An active US security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one, is beneficial but not required.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and voluntary life insurance options are available for employees and eligible dependents.
- Employees receive basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance coverage.
- Commuter benefits and relocation assistance are provided.
- The role offers take-what-you-need paid time off, two weeks of paid year-end time off subject to business needs, and 10 paid holidays.
- Supportive leave programs include military-service and medical-event leave, paid parental leave, and subsidized backup care.
- Fertility and family-building benefits and a new-child expense stipend are available.
- Employees may enroll in Palantir’s 401(k) plan.
- Palantir encourages in-office work, with many teams offering hybrid options of one or two work-from-home days per week; exceptional remote arrangements may be available for some roles.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkC++ElasticsearchGoGradleJavaKubernetesPythonRust
About Palantir
Palantir builds data-integration and AI-driven analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises to run operations and make decisions. Its core products, including Gotham and Foundry (with Apollo for deployment), are sold via software subscriptions and implementation services. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Miami, it is NYSE-listed and deployed across defense, intelligence, healthcare, and industrial sectors.