over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$135k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with forward-deployed and customer engineers to identify product gaps and short- and long-term improvements
- Build and evolve APIs that allow internal and customer developers to interact with Kubernetes runtimes
- Use Kubernetes primitives, its open-source ecosystem, and service lifecycle semantics to solve business-critical problems at scale
- Develop and operate infrastructure supporting hundreds of specialized microservices
- Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to deliver timely, sustainable technical solutions
- Define and champion a long-term technology roadmap that improves scalability, reduces operational burden and risk, and enables significant technical advances
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience
- At least 1 year contributing to the system design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- At least 1 year as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader
- Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or an equivalent language
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
- Experience developing and managing highly available distributed systems
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and its broader open-source ecosystem
- Strong troubleshooting skills using observability tools and service logs
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills
- Active US security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
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 business needs
- Ten paid holidays and supportive leave programs
- Paid parental leave, subsidized backup care, and fertility and family-building benefits
- New-child expense stipend and access to a 401(k) plan
- Primarily in-office work, with some teams offering hybrid work one or two days per week and exceptional remote options
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.