# Backend Software Engineer - Defense

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,000 - $200,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/a8174f9c-6f46-46b4-8e15-d1ff9e37c9eb
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6bc82374-dad

## Description

A Backend Software Engineer at Palantir builds software at scale to transform how organisations use data. The role involves collaborating closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand customer problems and build products that solve them. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that supports and challenges them as they grow and develop.

Some examples of product work you could work on are:

- Build for high-scale, collaborative, geospatial workflows (Gaia)

- Design sophisticated frameworks to enable complex workflows across applications in a single workspace

- Develop the next generation of real-time collaborative tooling and data-analysis solutions (Secure Collaboration)

Core Responsibilities:

- Architecting, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend services that underpin our operational data and AI systems

- Maintaining high coding standards through the development of guidelines, active participation in code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing among your team

- Building robust APIs for use by front-end developers and interfacing external systems, and collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic

- Designing efficient data structures and algorithms to manage large-scale and high throughput data

- Optimizing applications for speed and scalability through performance analysis

- Actively improving user workflows by collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless experiences across product boundaries and a cohesive user experience

Technologies We Use:

- Different backend languages, including Java, Rust, Python, and Go

- Distributed systems technologies such as Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Spark

- Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration

- Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub

What We Value:

- A deep understanding of server-side logic, efficient data handling, and distributed systems

- Strong focus on creating user-oriented workflows and solutions, crossing product boundaries to deliver cohesive and solid user workflows that ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience

- Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment

- Ability to work collaboratively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the people who will use what you're building

- Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users

What We Require:

- Experience in designing and developing features and improvements, as well as supporting and maintaining, live backend systems

- In-depth understanding of data structures, system architecture, API development for microservices frameworks, distributed systems, and other backend-related concepts and best practices

- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or similar field

- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages

- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality

- Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

Additional Information: The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Rust
- Python
- Go
- Kafka
- Cassandra
- Elasticsearch
- Spark
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Gradle
- GitHub
- Data structures
- System architecture
- API development
- Microservices frameworks
- Distributed systems