# Software Engineer - Apollo Systems

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Seattle
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,000 - $200,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

A Software Engineer on the Apollo team will build and operate a large-scale distributed system to allow the remote operation and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters. The mission is to extract the entire state of a cluster into a portable, high-performance artifact within minutes, enabling full and almost instant cluster reconstruction from the ground up,all while pushing the limits of speed, reliability, and scale.

Responsibilities:

- Build and maintain highly available systems responsible for orchestration of software deployment across hundreds of production environments

- Develop performance-sensitive storage features and optimizations to store and serve Palantir products

- Engage and solve problems that customers need today with a tight feedback loop for what is important and what works

- Working directly with other teams to solve problems that cross the team boundary

- Debug complex issues and performance problems throughout the stack, including open source

Requirements:

- 4+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence

- 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Benefits:

- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance

- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance

- Commuter benefits

- Relocation assistance

- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based

- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)

- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year

- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events

- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents

- Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation

- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child

Experience Level: senior Employment Type: full-time Workplace Type: hybrid Category: Engineering Industry: Technology Salary Range: $145,000 - $200,000/year Salary Min: 145000 Salary Max: 200000 Salary Currency: USD Salary Period: year Required Skills:

- Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in golang, Java or equivalent

- Some familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale

- Experience working with hosted container registries such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Google Artifact Registry, or Azure Container Registry (ACR)

- Familiarity with the OCI Distribution Spec and open source registry projects (e.g., distribution/distribution, Harbor)

- Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems

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

- High empathy for developer and operators workflows and productivity

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with AI tools (Claude Code/Codex/Copilot)

- Experience with container artifact store based on the OCI (Open Container Initiative) distribution spec

## Skills

### Required
- Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in golang, Java or equivalent
- Some familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale
- Experience working with hosted container registries such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Google Artifact Registry, or Azure Container Registry (ACR)
- Familiarity with the OCI Distribution Spec and open source registry projects (e.g., distribution/distribution, Harbor)
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
- Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment
- High empathy for developer and operators workflows and productivity

### Nice to have
- Experience with AI tools (Claude Code/Codex/Copilot)
- Experience with container artifact store based on the OCI (Open Container Initiative) distribution spec

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