# Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Foundations

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

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## Description

A Backend Software Engineer at Palantir builds software at scale to transform how organisations use data. Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand customer problems and build products that solve them. Contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks.

## Core Responsibilities

- Building a performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data

- Contributing to open-source data processing libraries, integrating the latest innovations to achieve performance gains

- Building the distributed systems that power large scale compute workloads, orchestrating and efficiently scheduling hundreds of thousands of containers every hour

- Designing architecture and opinionated APIs to keep application developers on the happy path

- Tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures

- Building reliant, performant, and scalable systems for storage, auth, or asset serving to enable other product teams to build robust applications without deep domain expertise in the underlying systems

- Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more across different environments

## Technologies We Use

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

- Open-source technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Flink

- Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle and GitHub

## What We Value

- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and empathize with a variety of individuals

- Ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience

- Bias towards quality and thoughtful about edge cases

- Builds solutions and APIs with users in mind while maintaining a high engineering bar

## What We Require

- 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

- Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools

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

## 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
- Go
- Cassandra
- ElasticSearch
- Spark
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Flink
- Gradle
- GitHub

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