Software Engineer - Environment Platform

Software Engineer - Environment Platform at Palantir Technologies

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

If you joined us today, you get to author the strategy by which each of Palantir’s software platforms - Foundry, Gotham, Apollo - achieves full containerization across an intimidating diversity of infrastructure types. Tomorrow, you get to do the same for Palantir’s ever expanding customer community. You will drive those goals by building elegant, robust APIs powered by K8s controllers which bridge the gap between a raw Kubernetes cluster and a fully-featured, infrastructure agnostic runtime that can scale to the operational needs of 100s of specialized microservices. Joining you on that journey is a highly motivated team with a diverse group of backgrounds and skillsets, brimming with ambition.

Core Responsibilities

• Engage with and internalize Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and the needs of your team’s customer base.
• Deeply understand and leverage K8s primitives, the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s, and highly technical service lifecycle semantics to solve business critical problems at scale.
• Build and evolve the APIs through which in-house as well as third-party software developers interact with K8s to satisfy their runtime needs, cleanly abstracting away the complex distributed systems powering them.
• Work closely with your team and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.
• Champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for step-changes whenever possible.

What Palantir Values

• Clear and concise verbal and written communications.
• A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides.
• Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems.
• Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs.
• Deep familiarity with K8s, and the broader ecosystem of software around K8s.

What Palantir Requires

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent.
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Salary and Benefits

The estimated salary range for the Software Engineer - Environment Platform position is $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation may include Restricted Stock Units, sign-on bonus, and other future incentives, determined by qualifications and experience. This estimate excludes potential sign-on bonuses, benefits, and long-term incentives.

Palantir offers comprehensive benefits focused on health and wellbeing, including medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability insurance. Commuter benefits, relocation assistance, and a 'take what you need' paid time off policy (non-accrual based) are provided. Employees also receive 2 weeks paid time off at year-end, 10 paid holidays, and supportive leave programs including parental leave, subsidized back-up care, fertility, and family building benefits, plus a new child stipend. A 401k plan is available for enrollment.

Life at Palantir

Palantir fosters an environment where every Palantirian can achieve their best, celebrating individual strengths and offering many pathways to success beyond traditional career ladders. The company invests in its community by promoting health and well-being across all aspects of employees' lives. While many teams offer hybrid work options (1-2 days WFH), Palantir encourages in-person office work to foster connectivity and innovation, believing employees are “better together.” Remote roles are exceptional and require working from the state of employment. If the posting specifies Onsite, office work is required.

Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes (K8s)
• Distributed Systems
• API Design
• Containerization
• Go
• Java
• System Architecture
• Observability
• Infrastructure Management
• Scalability