4 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement query planning and optimization capabilities that convert complex computations into efficient execution plans.
- Extend execution engines with new query operators, parallelism, memory management, and data movement capabilities.
- Develop Iceberg catalog and engine integrations covering metadata, transactions, reads, and writes.
- Build shared transformation semantics and execution interfaces across products and platform services.
- Improve incremental processing so pipelines reuse prior results while preserving correctness.
- Evaluate and integrate open-source data-system advances against real-world workloads.
- Investigate correctness and performance issues and create tests and benchmarks to prevent regressions.
- Collaborate with product teams and customers to translate operational needs into engine capabilities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Rust, Scala, or C++.
- Experience developing database engines, distributed data processing systems, storage systems, or comparable infrastructure, including query planning, execution, or performance optimization.
- Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency, with experience diagnosing correctness and performance issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and incorporate feedback.
- Experience building or extending systems such as Spark, DataFusion, or Iceberg is valued.
- Open-source contribution experience is valued but not required.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, voluntary life, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance options.
- Commuter benefits and relocation assistance.
- Flexible paid time off, two additional weeks of paid time off at year end subject to team and business needs, and 10 paid holidays.
- Supportive leave programs, including military and medical leave.
- Paid leave for new parents, subsidized backup care, fertility and family-building benefits, and a new-child stipend.
- 401(k) plan.
- Primarily office-based work is encouraged; many teams offer hybrid work from home one or two days per week, with exceptional remote roles based on business need and location.
- Potential short-term Frontline assignments may embed engineers with customers.
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.