7 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$82k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain documentation, metrics, monitors, and other troubleshooting tools
- Participate in on-call rotations during business hours and occasional weekends
- Diagnose, resolve, and prevent issues encountered in the field
- Deliver end-to-end improvements to core products based on field issues
- Improve observability by refactoring codepaths and introducing telemetry
- Identify and implement data-driven opportunities to improve service resilience
- Develop strategic opinions on stability investments and inform the long-term product stability vision
- Perform infrastructure migrations, product contributions, and codebase enhancements that improve stability and resilience
Requirements
- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar field
- Experience producing backend code, such as Java, through past roles or personal projects
- Familiarity with storage and data processing systems and cloud infrastructure
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues independently using observability tools and stack traces
- Track record of identifying codebase bugs and contributing fixes that improve long-term service stability
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and health checks
- Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
- Ability to work with ownership and urgency in a dynamic environment
- Strong written and verbal communication, ability to iterate quickly with teammates, and ability to incorporate feedback
- Experience with Java, Go, or web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Django, Flask, or Ruby on Rails is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to make data-driven decisions and engage stakeholders on strategy
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, voluntary life, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance options
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off that is not accrual-based
- Two weeks of paid time off built into the end of each year, subject to team and business needs
- Ten paid holidays
- Supportive leave of absence program, including military service and medical-event leave
- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized backup care
- Fertility and family-building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation support
- Stipend for expenses associated with a new child
- 401(k) plan
- Employees are encouraged to work from Palantir offices; some teams offer hybrid work one or two days per week, while remote work is available only for a limited number of roles on an exceptional basis
- Participation in on-call rotations during business hours and occasional weekends
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Palantir
AI-powered automation for every decision. At Palantir, our software powers AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprises in the West, from the factory floors to the front lines. Our platforms feature advanced tools for data protection, governance, responsible use of AI, and civilian protection capabilities for defense applications. Dominate your most complex problems with Palantir.