over 8 years ago
Base Salary
$135k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Improve the maintainability, reliability, and utility of Palantir’s internal compute infrastructure
- Own internal platforms and make architectural decisions supporting sustainable operations
- Evaluate build-versus-buy options and partner with vendors to integrate external technologies
- Collaborate with teams to understand emerging needs and deliver infrastructure solutions
- Participate in the on-call rotation for high-severity incidents affecting critical systems
- Research and evaluate new technologies and open-source advancements
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure, with an emphasis on operational excellence
- At least 2 years contributing to system design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- Strong systems programming proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust
- Deep familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCE, or sysadmin/SRE work in data centers
- Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and on-premises infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and system reliability principles
- Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, voluntary life, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance options
- Commuter benefits
- Take-what-you-need paid time off plus two weeks of year-end paid time off, subject to team and business needs
- Ten paid holidays
- Supportive leave of absence program, including military and medical leave
- Paid parental leave and subsidized backup care
- Fertility and family-building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation support
- New-child expense stipend
- 401(k) plan
- Primarily in-person work, with some teams offering hybrid work one or two days per week and exceptional remote arrangements
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.