Palantir

Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Palantir
Apply
almost 4 years ago

Base Salary

$135k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical strategy and define a long-term roadmap for the observability team.
  • Build and operate log, metric, and trace ingestion and processing systems, monitoring, alerting, and related observability workflows.
  • Review technical roadmaps and project implementations while contributing to substantive technical discussions.
  • Partner with engineering teams, operators, leadership, and stakeholders to deliver scalable and operationally sound solutions.
  • Lead and mentor engineers, provide feedback, accelerate their growth, and manage performance.
  • Reduce operational burden and risk while improving system scalability and maintainability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years contributing to system design or architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • 1+ years of experience 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.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Active US security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
  • Clear verbal and written communication skills and experience leading complex cross-team engineering efforts.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, voluntary life, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance options.
  • Commuter benefits and relocation assistance.
  • Flexible paid time off, two weeks of paid year-end time off subject to team and business needs, and 10 paid holidays.
  • Supportive leave programs, including military and medical leave.
  • Paid parental leave, subsidized backup care, fertility and family-building benefits, and a new-child stipend.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Employees are encouraged to work from Palantir offices; many teams offer hybrid work one or two days per week, with limited exceptional remote roles.

Tech Stack

Categories

Palantir

About Palantir

1,001-5,000 employees

AI-powered automation for every decision. At Palantir, our software powers AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprises in the West, from the factory floors to the front lines. Our platforms feature advanced tools for data protection, governance, responsible use of AI, and civilian protection capabilities for defense applications. Dominate your most complex problems with Palantir.

Contact me