# Software Engineer - Apollo Systems

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: New York
**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.

As a Software Engineer on the Apollo team, you'll own the full development lifecycle,from idea generation and design, through implementation, to operation and support,while collaborating closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver robust, impactful infrastructure.

The usage of AI tools (Claude Code/Codex/Copilot) is highly encouraged!

## Core 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

## What We Value

- 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) is highly desirable

- 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

## What We Require

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- golang
- Java
- containers
- orchestration
- hosted container registries
- OCI Distribution Spec
- open source registry projects
- observability
- infrastructure systems
- CI/CD development environment

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Copilot

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