over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$135k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with forward deployed and customer engineers to identify product gaps and short- and long-term improvements
- Understand and apply Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and customer stakeholder needs
- Use Kubernetes primitives and its open-source ecosystem to solve business-critical problems at scale
- Build and evolve APIs that allow internal and customer developers to interact with Kubernetes
- Abstract complex distributed systems into an infrastructure-agnostic runtime for specialized microservices
- Collaborate with teammates and stakeholders to deliver sustainable and timely technical solutions
- Drive a long-term technology roadmap that reduces operational burden and risk while improving scalability
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience
- At least 1 year contributing to system design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- At least 1 year of experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team
- Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or an equivalent language
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent; equivalent experience may substitute for the degree
- Experience developing and managing highly available distributed systems
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and its broader open-source ecosystem
- Active US security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one
- Clear verbal and written communication, impact orientation, and ability to troubleshoot complex systems independently using observability tools and service logs
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, voluntary life, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance options
- Commuter benefits and relocation assistance
- Take-what-you-need paid time off, plus two weeks of paid time off at year-end subject to team and business needs
- Ten paid holidays
- Supportive leave of absence program, including military service and medical-event leave
- Paid parental leave and subsidized backup care
- Fertility and family-building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
- New-child expense stipend
- 401(k) plan
- Employees are encouraged to work from company offices; many teams offer hybrid work one or two days per week, with exceptional remote arrangements available for some roles
Tech Stack
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.