Palantir

Production Engineer - Database Operations

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over 1 year ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Build software that automates routine production database deployment and operation.
  • Participate in regular on-call rotations and troubleshoot, diagnose, and remediate production stability and reliability issues.
  • Participate in post-incident reviews and own follow-up actions.
  • Analyze incidents, support tickets, and alerts to propose systemic improvements across the database fleet.
  • Manage and execute large-scale database fleet migrations.
  • Partner with customer-facing, database engineering, and infrastructure teams during incidents and database installations.
  • Build resilient and highly available database systems.
  • Improve documentation, metrics, monitors, troubleshooting tools, engineering standards, and operating procedures.
  • Share expertise in production systems and provide feedback through code and design reviews.

Requirements

  • Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar field.
  • Experience writing code in languages such as Java, Python, and Go through professional work or personal projects.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift.
  • Experience with Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
  • Solid foundation in Linux and distributed web services.
  • Familiarity with Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, adaptability, and ability to incorporate feedback.

Benefits

  • Palantir emphasizes employee health, well-being, individual strengths, skills, interests, and long-term growth.
  • Work is generally encouraged from Palantir offices; many teams may offer hybrid work from home one or two days per week, and a limited number of roles may allow remote work based on business needs.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and hiring process.
  • The role is based in Singapore, with particular interest in applicants who have current Singapore work authorization.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmJavaKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPython

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About Palantir

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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